cctalk Digest, Vol 2, Issue 40

From: Paul Berger <sanepsycho_at_globaldialog.com>
Date: Tue Oct 28 10:25:13 2003

On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 20:38, stevew wrote:
> I can't tell you specifically, but I worked with the 6300's for some time back
> in the mid 80's. If I remember, they had a generic 10Mb drive, so I would
> imagine a Seagate 225 would be about the right generation. The floppies were
> black on the units we used, and were also otherwise unremarkable. The floppy
> controller I can't comment on, other than I would imagine an ISA controller
> would work with them.
>
> As far as I could tell, the 6300 series were essentially an IBM clone minus
> the basic. They ran MSDos and PCDos equally well.

Actually they had a custom version of MS-DOS since they used a
non-standard clock chip and has some other odd things. The things are a
little odd being made by Olivetti which was an Italian Mfg.

Paul
Received on Tue Oct 28 2003 - 10:25:13 GMT