On 10/25/2017 01:24 PM, 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.
They really are very nice machines. In my early teen years I worked at a computer store in Lawrenceville, NJ. We were, among other things, a dealer for AT&T computers. Through some quirk of stupid suitly madness, AT&T ended up buying scads of AT&T computers from us. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA