jan@bagend.UUCP (Jan Isley) (07/31/89)
In article <4700001@spdyne> root@spdyne.UUCP writes: >I just bought a UNIX PC with 1 Meg of Ram, 40 Meg disk and all... >And I have a few problems: Welcome to the club. Since no one else has responded to this, I'll bite. > 1) Contrary to my understanding, it did not come with the Development > System. ('C' Lang. Compiler etc..) can you say, "caveat emptor"? > 2) It is a rather old version of UNIX. (no vi!!! - I wouldn't > have ever guessed that someone was selling a 'UNIX' without > vi! Especally not AT & T! Oh, well... Live and learn.. > (Maybe it comes with the soft dev. kit?) AT&T has unbundled software for quite a while, they get more money that way. Yes, vi comes with the utilities package. If you really must have vi now, look at your encryption disks. > 3) I need more Ram. 1 Meg is not very much. 1 MB is really not that bad. I found a *truly remarkable* difference between 1/2 MB and 1 MB but not so much of a difference betweem 1 MB and 2 MB. > 4) I Need a Mouse. It didn't come with one and it would be nice > to have one. Call my work number and get a keyboard and mouse for $30. > 5) I would like to upgrade the OS to 3.51 (Current?) It is currently > at 3.0. Call my work number and get 3.5 for $150 or 3.51 for $250, or call AT&T and ask what their upgrade cost is. > 6) I would like to hang at least one serial port of the thing. > (No, the one that came with it is hosed, tho I'm going to > go in there with a Scope and see if I can trace it down...) See a previous posting of mine to get an EIA board for $250, or call my work number and get a 1/2 MB combo board for $549. > 7) I would like a SCSI board for it... (Not a high on my list yet.) You and everyone else! There has been lots of talk about doing this but I have not seen or heard of any results yet. Anyone else have any good news about a SCSI board? > 8) I might like to get the DOS board/Software Well, I have one I have offered for $500 or call me at work and pay $550. > 9) I would like to upgrade the internal modem (s?? 2 lines - 2 > modems??) - to 2400 baud. Can this be done? Not in this lifetime. > 9) ** Most important ** I would like to get any documentation that > is availiable for it, including Schematics for it. (I'm dreaming > right?) Yes, you are dreaming. I have talked to just about everyone who still works at AT&T and knows anything about the Unix PC and they all say there is no stock on the reference manual. >I talked to AT & T - 3 different 800 numbers... And I have talked to the >three dealers that they gave me on the last call... So far, I'm lucky if >they have even heard of the machine.... One tried to sell me UNIX for the >386 - said it should work....[Gave up on that vendor...] > > I talked to Technical Resource Center (800-433-4904) and they >wanted to sell me a RAM board for it (w/0K) for only $1,200! Gee, I >could get a 286 with 4 Serial ports and UNIX for about that price... >(and of course 1Mb ram...) After the fourth time I asked the guy, >he checked on the board a little more and found out that it also >had 2 serial ports on it.. I (from work) can also sell you a 0k board socketed for 2 MB for $350, or with 2 MB for $750. If you put *your* RAM on it and it does not work it *will* cost you to deal with it because these are new boards that are *very* tested before you get them. > If AT & T is not willing to sell the Soft. Dev. kit anymore, is there >anyone out there who would be so kind as to tar it up and UUCP / US-Mail >it to me? [or sell me their copy?] I'll trade ya Dbase 3 for it... If you can talk someone into violating a whole variety of laws for you, that is between you and them and your lawyers and AT&T's lawyers. This product is still very much for sale by AT&T. We offer it at work for $495. > Also, is there any way to make the internal modem connect ONLY after >6 rings? What I want to do is to have the answering machine pickup after >4 rings, then while it's resetting UUCP will try again, and this time >the answering machine will just let the phone ring - 8 times from my >tests, and the computer will take the call... It should work like a charm. I do not think so, not without source code anyway. Anyone else? > Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give me on this... No problem. Jan Isley, follower of Zen, picker of nit home = jan@bagend | gatech!bagend!jan | (404) 434-1335 work = Discovery Electronics (404) 425-5700
friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) (07/31/89)
In article <803@bagend.UUCP>, jan@bagend.UUCP (Jan Isley) writes: > Anyone else have any good news about a SCSI board? [for the UNIX-PC] It's a pretty good bet that Owens-Laing will be doing one of these in the near future, but I've no definitive word on when or how much... Steve -- Stephen J. Friedl / V-Systems, Inc. / Santa Ana, CA / +1 714 545 6442 3B2-kind-of-guy / {attmail uunet}!vsi!{bang!}friedl / friedl@vsi.com "The 80386 is just a 32-bit 8051, only not as good." - me