I have a 6300 right outside Philly which is free to a good home. It might need some PALs or the keyboard controller resoldered, but should be otherwise intact as a system. No mouse nor keyboard nor monitor, though. Pickup only, Contact me off-list. On 10/26/2017 9:53 AM, Matt Patoray via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
All this talk of the AT&T PC-6300, I will need to start working on mine, which is giving me random parity error messages and crashing. Also I think the factory Olivetti floppy drive is getting quite flaky.
On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 11:24 PM, Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Precious... my precious...
On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 10:18 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I must've missed it. It seems Dean is drooling. :)
-Dave
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
On October 25, 2017 9:53:45 PM Jason Howe via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I sent a message to this very list on 08/15/2014 offering it up!
--Jason
On 10/25/2017 06:24 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Well I'd certainly never heard of it.
-Dave
On 10/25/2017 04:22 PM, Jason Howe via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
And to think I have a 6300 sitting in it's original box in the garage that I can't generate any interest for locally.
--Jason
On 10/25/2017 10:24 AM, Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > The AT&T 6300 was an example of a system that was 99.9% compatible > with the > IBM standard and actually made inroads to the market because of it. > Working > at Simon & Schuster in the 80's, we had many of these machines
because
> Microsoft Word for DOS had a driver for the 640 x 400 graphics mode that > allowed for WYSIWYG editing, and as well it cost a bit less. Faster than > the XT, the software and 8-bit ISA slot compatibility were very high, but > it had proprietary 16-bit slots which limited it's usefulness in the long > term. Very sturdy machines, however. Hoping to add one to my collection > someday. > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Drew Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic < > vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Earl Baugh via vcf-midatlantic < >> vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote: >> >>> And in theme with Herb's kerosene powered fan, I actually own a >>> gasoline >>> powered clothes iron. >>> Looks like a regular small iron but is gasoline powered. Seriously. >>> >>> Earl >>> >> I've got to see this. Do you have a photo you could upload somewhere? >> I love really old, weird devices like that. I have a calculator that >> had a >> few metal sliders marked with numbers that you'd slide up and down >> with a >> stylus to do calculations with, and it was color coded to tell you >> when to >> do a carry. >>
-- Jonathan Gevaryahu jgevaryahu@gmail.com jgevaryahu@hotmail.com