On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Rick Bensene wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I made a haul of various computer stuff yesterday, most of which is too
> new to qualify
> for the 10 year rule, but not sure if this one is or not.
>
> It is a Digital Equipment 3000, Model 600.
> It is a desktop-style case with horizontal orientation. It's HEAVY.
>
> Anyone know anything about this machine?
> It powers up OK, and goes through a sequence of flashing different codes
> (POST?)
> on 8 LED's on the back panel. I haven't hooked up a console to it (it
> uses a
> funky RJ-style connector for the console port). It has a CD-ROM drive
> in the of
> the cabinet. There is an old-style Centronics SCSI connector on the
> back, as
> well as old AUI-style 10Base2 connector for Ethernet. It also appears
> to have
> a built-in ISDN interface. There's three slots for option cards, and
> one haswhat appears to be some kind of color framebuffer card with a
> 3-pin (RGB?) D-style connector.
>
> Can anyone tell me more about this machine? What processor does it use?
> Is it
> VAX-like? Operating systems? VMS/Ultrix?
Processor = Alpha 21064A _at_ 175 MHz
ECC memory
OS = VMS,OSF1/DU/Trunix/whatever,NetBSD
Fast narrow SCSI (10 Mbytes/sec)
10M Ethernet
Video is 3 wire (3W3 connector) probably 1280X1024_at_72Hz sync-on-green
Needs funny cable/adapter for KB/mouse (I have many if you need one)
Fairly good room heater...
>
> I haven't opened the machine up to see what's inside as yet, didn't have
> much time
> this afternoon to dig into it deeper.
>
> Any help appreciated.
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Rick Bensene
> The Old Calculator Web Museum
> http://www.geocities.com/oldcalculators
>
>
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Peter Wallace
Mesa Electronics
Received on Sat Jun 15 2002 - 12:27:48 BST