Odd old Xerox equipment

From: Innfogra_at_aol.com <(Innfogra_at_aol.com)>
Date: Sat Apr 21 00:17:01 2001

In a message dated 4/20/01 6:11:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time, optimus_at_canit.se
writes:

> was a black, rather fat tower with a very black front with relief stripes.
On
> top of it sat an equally black diskdrive, its front as black the computer.
I
> think it would fold down to reveal the actual slot. The back featured a
> number
> of very large blanking plates for graphics (I think a D15) and AUI.
> What kind of system was it, when was it released, what OS did it run? Can I
> marry it?

This sounds like a Xerox 6085 although I don't remember the case being black,
more like a dark brown IIRC. If so it is the second generation Star machine,
I can't remember its name right now (Daybreak? someone will correct if I am
wrong).

Needs it's own monitor, keyboard and mouse. Look around for those. Highly
collectable. Get it if you can. If you are close to Portland I would be
interested. I miss getting rid of the ones I had.

Runs a Xerox operating system called Viewpoint. Look for Version 2.0. I think
I have it somewhere in storage.

Good luck, Fun system. You can marry it.

Paxton
Portland, OR
Received on Sat Apr 21 2001 - 00:17:01 BST