vic@sunybcs.UUCP (Vic Bahl) (04/10/85)
I am interested in the new AT&T Pc 7300 as well as the relatively new 6300. I would appreciate getting mail from those of you out there that have infor- mation on these two micros. I would be particularly interested in the following things (but not exclusively so) : 1. Compatibility with IBM PC as well as availibility of software. 2. Cost of basic system (6300) 2 drives, 128 or 256 ram monitor,keyboard. 3. Cost of the basic 7300 system. Since I really have no idea what this system is like please let me know what the cost you have seen includes as well as what else is available and for how much. 4. The 7300 is advertised as a UNIX machine. I am not sure what that means (ie. does it mean that UNIX is available as an operating system if you have at least a 10 mb disk or what. 5. Reliability and general performance. I have not located any reviews of either of these micros so if you know of any I would appreciate it. I have not seen the 6300 advertised thru mail order in Byte at least. If anyone has let me know. Thank you Vic Bahl -- -------------- Vic Bahl @ SUNY Buffalo Computer Science (716-688-2879) UUCP: ..![bbncca,decvax,dual,rocksanne,watmath]!sunybcs!vic CSNET: vic@Buffalo.CSNET ARPA: vic%buffalo@CSNET-RELAY
baxter@uab_cs.UUCP (04/12/85)
As the proud owner of an AT&T PC 6300, I can offer the following information on it: 1) It is very compatible with the IBM PC (assuming IBM color graphics equipped IBM PC), supporting all text/graphics modes supported by IBM's standard color graphics adapter. It has the advantage of supporting the color support with a color or monochrome monitor. Note: only AT&T monitors are supported! In addition an additional graphics mode supporting b/w 640 x 400 resolution is available. 2) One difference is that GWBASIC (non-rom version) is used rather than BASICA (IBM proprietary rom). The supported commands/keywords are identical in both BASIC's. 3) The AT&T machine is noticeably faster for computationally intensive tasks (approx. 2 to 1). It has 5 available expansion slots which are IBM PC equivalent plus 2 which allow 16 bit data transfers. Thesys Memory Products makes a memory expansion board for the PC 6300 which supports the 16 bit slot (384K plus includes Grafix Partner from Brightbill-Roberts & Co. and Thesys's own disk cacheing software, both are very good). Combination is $595. 4) I have installed Cermetek's PC 1200 modem board and a hard disk controller for an external 20 Mbyte disk from Computer Integration Associates (CIA) in New Jersey. Both are very functional. The hard disk subsystem is designed for either an IBM PC or compatible and can support Xenix (based on vendor claims, but not tested). 5) The keyboard connection is NOT IBM PC compatible so Keytronic's keyboards may not be used. I have used an HP 2622 terminal emulator from Walker, Richer & Quinn which appears to operate the keyboard at a very low level with complete success. 6) I have not seen ANY software package which supports the AT&T PC 6300's 640 x 400 graphics mode. You would have to do your own programming. 7) Turbo Pascal works very nicely.