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. >
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