Tarsi,
Three of my close friends bought 6300s when they were new so I'm fairly
familar with them. What do you want to know? Here's few facts: They were
made by Olivette. They use the same video card for monochrome or color
monitors. The monitors do not have a power cord, they get their power
through the video connector. The resolution on the color monitor is higher
than that on a PC and is non-standard. They seem to be very IBM compatible,
the AT&T DOS seems to work fine on a PC. I'm not sure if vice versa is
true. The hard drives in them seem to be very unreliable. Owners of most of
the ones that I know of ended up putting hard cards in theirs. The
keyboard, mouse and monitor are all special and won't interchange with any
other machine that I know of. I know where there are several here in
Florida that you can have cheap ($0) if you'll come get them. I think
there's still a set of docs there too. There should be one color monitor
there with them. If I remember right, the new price on them was about $2700
for the monochrome model and $3200 for the color model and I THINK that was
with just two floppy drives. They had an AT&T version of MS-DOS. I THINK
they came with version 2.11. I should still have a copy here somewhere if
you want a copy. I think it had a few enhancements of the same version of
IBM DOS but I don't remember exactly what they were.
Joe
At 07:56 PM 10/16/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello, all!
>
>A new addition to my collection, an AT&T 6300 PC. Some stats that I have
>so far:
>
> i8086 CPU
> 640 K RAM
> Weird keyboard
> green monochrome display
> Boots MSDOS 3.3 happily
>
>I'll do some searching on the web later tonight for info on it, as well as
>cleaning it up, but if anyone has information on this little artifact, its
>abilities, software, manuals, or hardware specs, all is appreciated.
>
>Thanks! I'm just so happy I found him! (oh, and for $3 at Goodwill)
>
>Tarsi
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Received on Mon Oct 16 2000 - 22:03:56 BST