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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!lampi
- From: lampi@halcyon.com (Michael Lampi)
- Subject: Re: HP Vue on DN3000? (or `DN3000 as a home machine')
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.175512.19560@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
- References: <NIGELW.93Jan20232355@meerkat.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:55:12 GMT
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- nigelw@cs.man.ac.uk (Nigel Whitaker) writes:
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-
- >I've recently bought myself a home computer.
- >A DN3000 -- 4megs RAM, 170 Disc, floppy, ethernet, TokenRing, 1280bw.
- >(I bought it at an auction and at GBP 200 it seemed a much
- >better buy than most of the 286 PCs that were in my
- >price range).
- [...stuff deleted...]
- >What options do I have for tape media. I don't think its got
- >the later WD controller with SCSI interface, so am I limited
- >to the apollo cartridge. What exactly is the apollo
- >cartridge drive? Was it specially made for apollo?
-
- The cartridge drive was the older QIC-36 drive, which is still
- around in any recycled computer places. Made by Archive. The old
- Sun 1/4" tape drive (full height version) has a SCSI to QIC-36
- interface board in its lower half, so if you got one of those
- drives off an old Sun 2 or Sun 3 and stripped of the lower
- board, you'd be all set.
-
- >Can any PC / SCSI interface cards be used, do I need a driver?
-
- You need a driver for almost everything.
-
- >Anyone want to swap a token ring board(s) for other bits such
- >as memory or tape?
-
- >Should I sell it and try to get a 386 PC?
-
- 486's are quite cheap these days :-)
-
- >Any answers/advice welcomed.
-
- You're welcome!
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