[ont.micro] S100 MSDOS system for sale

jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman) (10/28/85)

 For Sale: IEEE/696 (S100) 8086 MS-DOS System

 I'm selling my home system:

 CARDS:

	Seattle Computer Products CPU & System Support Board & Floppy Controller
	- 8mhz 8086, 1 serial & 1 parallel in & 1 parallel out ports
	- 5 programmable timers
	- cascadable interrupt controller
	- monitor and boot rom
	- floppy disk controller supports drives in any combination of:
	  5.25" and 8", single and double density, single and double sided
	- floppy controller board handles up to four drives

	384k Ram
	- currently set up as 320k program memory + 64k as disk
	  buffers
	- 8/16 bit transfers

	5 port Parallel card
	- 5 unidirectional ports each with status/strobe capability

	Morrow DMA Winchester Controller
	- controls any ST506 drive
	- programmable step rate, # of heads, # of tracks etc.
	- controls up to four drives
	- full DMA transfer

	Matrox ALT512 graphics board
	- software configurable as: 512*256*1, 256*256*2, or two
	  separate 256*256*1 planes which can be displayed separately, OR'd etc
	- generates composite video, sync, separate sync, positive and
	  negative sync, video at analog and ttl levels
	- can be driven by other video/sync sources
	- more planes can be added for colour or expanded grey scale


DISK DRIVES (one of each type)

	Rodime (they supply the drives for Ampex Pyxis winchesters) 40 Mb Win.
	- 55ms average access including head settling time
	- 6 heads, 640 tracks
	- ST506 interface
	- automatic (actuated at power off) head lock
	
	Qume Datatrak 8
	- up to 1.2mb per 8" floppy
	- 3ms track-to-track
	- handles single and double density, single and double sided

	Tandon TM100-2
	- handles single and double density, single and double sided
	- half height
	- 360k in IBMPC format

ENCLOSURES

	Integrand 800DB2F contains the cards and 8" drive
	- 10 slot card cage and backplane
	- has the (optional) heavy duty power supply
	- active termination "QuasiCoax" motherboard
	- 12 DB25 cutouts, 2 BNC cutouts, cutout & clamp for ribbon cable
	- 2 filterable muffin fans
	- all steel construction
	- cutout and power for a second 8" drive
	- lit power/reset button, keyed (lock)

	Integrand 2905W contains the 5.25" floppy and winchester
	- room remaining for one half-height drive or tape
	- all steel construction
	- filtered muffin fan

OTHER HARDWARE

	Volker-Craig VC2100 terminal
	- VT100/VT52 compatible
	- 80*24 and 132*24, plus status line
	- 2 pages of video memory
	- detached keyboard
	- amber screen

	YJE Video Monitor
	- model GM-1201
	- high res green screen
	- composite input

	Anchor-Signalman Mark XII modem
	- 300/1200 baud
	- AT compatible

	Epson MX-80 printer
	- parallel interface & cable

SOFTWARE

	- MS-DOS 2.1 wirth source of BIOS and all drivers (inlcuding ANSI.SYS)
	- small assembler, MASM macro assembler, linker, screen editor, C and
	  Pascal compilers, print spooler, flexible backup utility
	- various software from the net, e.g. ROFF, XLISP, a shell, make utility
	- about 6Mb of software of one sort or another
	- the Seattle Computer MS-DOS manuals are very comprehensive (better
	  than anything I've seen from other manufacturers)

Plus all cables and about 30 8" and 20 5.25" diskettes.


This is a complete system in good working order and would cost well over
$6000 (US $) at current prices; I'm asking $3700 (US $).  I would like
to sell the entire system as a whole but will take offers on the "core"
system (for example without terminal, monitor, printer, modem).

Queries or offers can be sent to me by email or by calling 
(519) 323-4977 after 6pm weeknights or anytime on weekends.

John Chapman
....!watmath!watcgl!jchapman