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From: wan@gatech.CSNET (Peter N. Wan)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att
Subject: Re: 7300 Tidbits and questions
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Date: Mon, 20-May-85 00:13:48 EDT
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In article <739@plus5.UUCP> eric@plus5.UUCP (Eric W. Kiebler) writes:
>*  Don't buy a 7300 with less than a MB, period.

Definitely true.  The complaints about the window responses have probably
come from people who used a 0.5MB system.  My 1MB system responded very
well.  The newer systems (my system was an early development system) can
have 1MB on the motherboard, thereby requiring only two expansion slots be
taken up for memory expansion.  There is talk that they will use 256KB
memory chips and allow all 2MB to be on the motherboard.

>*  It is possible to get expansion units from third party people that
>   are quite reasonable.  There is at least one vendor that has a 40MB
>   drive in a 7300 and plans are in the works for interfacing the
>   brand-new optical disks.  

The only one that I am familiar with is the 40MB disk from Bell
Technologies (not affiliated with AT&T).  List price is $2995 for
this disk.  It is supposed to just plug into the slot and use the
same controller connector as the standard 10MB/20MB drives offered
by AT&T IS.  Formatted capacity is 31.46MB, track-to-track access is
16ms, and average access time is 85ms (maximum of 205ms).  These
figures are quoted from their literature.  I don't know about optical disk
interfacing.

>*  I did not see a uucp out there.

My machine had UUCP, and it talked to my VAX running 4.2bsd just fine.
It wasn't Honey/Danber, though.  The menu-driven L.sys entry creator was
not too flexible (it didn't handle wierd network switches!  :-) ).

>*  Nobody is quite sure which programs are really packaged with the various
>   unix segments they offer.  Especially nebulous is the Electronic Mail
>   system.  I assume that this is some neat mailer as opposed to mailx
>   or /bin/mail or cat.

I believe that the electronic mail system is menu-oriented, and interfaces
with the telephone manager (there is a field in the telephone manager to
record the electronic mail address for an entry, and a command entry to
send electronic mail to the selected directory entry).  I don't know for
sure, since we didn't order that option.

>eric
>-- 
>..!ihnp4!plus5!eric
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Peter N Wan
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