dd26+@andrew.cmu.edu (Douglas F. DeJulio) (11/29/90)
I was at a recent "garage sale" type hardware sale, and I picked up a Tektronix 4404 workstation for parts. Can anyone tell me what I've got? I know nothing about the system, and the CPU doesn't have a power supply so I can't power it up and figure things out. They tell me that this thing runs Unix. It has a 40 meg hard drive, and a nifty little card that makes a 5" floppy appear to be a SCSI device. If nothing else, I'd like to figure out how to use that card (it'd be neat for my NeXT to read 5" DOS floppies). It also has a three button mouse, and a very strange keyboard with some sort of 2-d pointing device built into it (not quite a track ball, but similar). I'd either like to get the system up and running or scavange the drive subsystem, the keyboard, the mouse, the monitor, and whatever else I can use elsewhere. -- Doug DeJulio dd26@andrew.cmu.edu
datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri) (11/30/90)
>>Tektronix 4404 workstation for parts. Can anyone tell me what I've >got? We had one of these at a former employer -- ours ran a Smalltalk system of some sort. --
seymour@milton.u.washington.edu (Richard Seymour) (12/01/90)
>> (paraphrased) what's a Tek 4404?
call Tektronix -- manuals, parts and service guides are often surprisingly
affordable... (or at least an old catalog description)
good luck
--dick