386 machines, AST-390 + Xenix
jeffh at weycord.WEYCO.COM
jeffh at weycord.WEYCO.COM
Mon Jun 27 20:24:17 AEST 1988
I just went through the mess of trying to find a "compatible" to run XENIX.
There are a lot of 386 AT machines out there that will run XENIX. That's
not the problem- it's the disc controllers, discs, tape controllers and
drives, etc...
Anyway, I looked at AST, ALR, HP (good box if you've got the bucks), Bell
Tech, and a little company in Renton Washington call Trinity Tech. Well
I got the box from Trinity Tech. Why "Trinity Tech"? I had a chance to
open up the box and take a look. They have a lot of State and Federal
contracts (including the University of Washington) and they make a solid
386 AT. The configuration I ended up with was the following:
20 MHz 386 ( full size AT box )
Award BIOS
2 MByte Zero wait state SRAM
2P/2S interfaces
80 MByte seagate disc
Western digital 1003/1006? controller (1:1)
1.2 meg 5.25 flopyy
1.4 meg 3.25 floppy
Archive (QIC-36 Scorpion) tape
SC400 tape controller
2400 buad modem
TOTAL system price: $5,000.00
The bottom line was a bit heavy; but, I think I got a lot for my money!
The guys at Trinity Tech (206) 772-7774 seem to give a .... !
Jeff (Spectra Software) Harrell
(206) 927-9268
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