Sellam, can you post a pic? This thing sounds cool (I'm a sucker for
oddball eight-bitters).
Glen
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> From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_vintage.org>
> To: Classic Computers Mailing List <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> Subject: Varian 402 Data Station
> Date: Monday, February 18, 2002 3:50 PM
>
>
> I found a Varian 402 Data Station. It's basically a Z80 machine with a
> built-in CRT, 2 disk drives, and a thermal printer. It's huge.
>
> When I fire it up, I get no activity on the CRT, but the thermal printer
> goes into a self-test, pauses for a moment, then repeats. It does this
> endlessly, so something must be wrong.
>
> No activity on the disk drives either.
>
> A Google search turned up nothing useful.
>
> Anyone have any experience with these things?
>
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>
> Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
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