daemon@houligan.UUCP (04/04/86)
Has anybody seen the UNIX PC (7300) Technical Reference Manual? Does it
include schematics? All AT&T could tell me about it is that they want
$355 for it up front. After spending $150 for the rip-off Service Manual
sight unseen, I'm not about to do that again. Any information at all,
including heresay or rumors, would be greatly appreciated.
Also, after installing the 3.0 upgrade, including utilities, my machine
refuses to boot without a disk in the floppy drive. After power up, it
prints "Searching floppy disk...", loads the head on the drive and stalls
until a floppy without a loader area is inserted into the drive, then it
goes onto the hard disk. My 2.0 software didn't exhibit this endearing trait,
and the machine passes all diagnostics. I must have one of the earliest
machines, as I purchased it 2 weeks after it was announced. The only
modification is I trashed the SLOW 10MB Miniscribe hard disk / washing machine
with for a 65ms 20MB Seagate half height. As an acceptable temporary fix, I
simply leave a blank formatted disk in the floppy drive. Has anybody else
seen this?
Jeff Lohman ...!{brl-bmd,pur-ee,sun}!gould!jlohman
Gould, Computer Systems Division
6901 W. Sunrise Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33310-4499
(305) 587-2900 x5237