ugfailau@cs.buffalo.EDU (Fai Lau) (10/18/87)
Hi. I'm seriously considering getting an AT&T 6300
and am wondering just how compatible it is with IBM XT and AT's.
From my experience with other PC compatibles they seem to
have problem loading self booting diskettes. So how good is
the AT&T in this espect?
Thanx for any comment!
Fai Lau
SUNY at Buffalo (The Arctic Wonderland)
UUCP: ..{mit-ems|watmath|rocksanne}!sunybcs!ugfailau
BI: ugfailau@sunybcspsc@lznv.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm) (10/28/87)
<PS/2: yesterday's hardware today; OS/2: yesterday's software tomorrow> In article <5959@sunybcs.UUCP>, ugfailau@cs.buffalo.EDU (Fai Lau) writes: > Hi. I'm seriously considering getting an AT&T 6300 > and am wondering just how compatible it is with IBM XT and AT's. > From my experience with other PC compatibles they seem to > have problem loading self booting diskettes. So how good is > the AT&T in this espect? Well, I'm biased in general about this machine, but I can be objective about this: I've used several self-booting games, and all of them worked. The *only* compatibility problem I ever found was when a game program tried to somehow initialize a floppy. Didn't work on my machine, worked on the machine in the store. My machine could *write* to that disk after that. (The game was "Rendezvous with Rama"; when it crashed when you launched the Dragonfly, it crashed in the same place on the machine in the store. Too bad.) I've heard of games that didn't work because the display wasn't compatible enough with IBM's CGA. I've never seen one, though. -Paul S. R. Chisholm, {ihnp4,cbosgd,allegra,rutgers}!mtune!lznv!psc AT&T Mail !psrchisholm, Internet psc@lznv.att.com I'm not speaking for my employer, I'm just speaking my mind.
dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) (03/29/90)
We have uncovered an old AT&T 6300 PC (Olivettit 8086 machine) which is semifunctional. Unfortunately so many of the parts are non-standard that it is either somewhat difficult or uneconomical to replace them with the real thing. Does anyone know, if a standard XT or AT keyboard can be made to work with the 6300 ? (The 6300 keyboard is sh*t, and also uses a 9-pin D connector). How about the video card ? Can it be removed and a standard PC-bus video card put in its place ? How about the BIOS ? (the 6300 seems very PC-incompatible, perhaps a BIOS change would help ?) Please email responses. Thanks. Cheers, Dan Ts'o 212-570-7671 Dept. Neurobiology dan@rna.rockefeller.edu Rockefeller Univ. ...cmcl2!rna!dan 1230 York Ave. rna!dan@nyu.edu NY, NY 10021 tso@rockefeller.arpa tso@rockvax.bitnet