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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 6300 graphics and EGA cards
Summary: new AT&T card the same as in the Worksation 386?
Keywords: 6300, EGA, graphics, equivalents
Message-ID: <938@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 88 07:01:48 GMT
References: <1037@bakerst.UUCP> <801@ur-tut.UUCP>
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Just got done disassembling a Worksation 86, or whatever it is
called that an associate has on loan from AT&T.  Pretty decent Unix
port.  Works well doing XT Layers on a 630 terminal.

Well anyway, the design of the machine is pretty much the same as
the 6300 / 6310 with the motherboard on the bottom and the slots up
top.

The video board was set up to the same video modes as the indboard
on a 6300, but is was in a regular slot.  The chipset was by
Vector, or something like that.  It looked like a pretty early
hardware rev, as there was a truck load of pasted on jumper wires
on the video board.  It looked like the video board was
manufactured by OPE, as it bore the usual appearance of their work.

The rest of the Workstation's harware was pretty clean.  Mounting
the hard drive in the attached sidecar was a good idea.

Eventhogh the video board appeared to be very much a patched-up
affair, it did seem to work OK.

The only real criticism I have of the Workstation is that the
keyboard has a pretty cheesey tactile feel like a low-budget Taiwan
clone.  The stupid coiled cord is too short, exits from the left of
the keyboard and has to plug into the right of the machine.  Dumb.
Come to think of it the 6300's keyboard cable is a similar design,
but it isn't as short as the cable on the Workstation's keyboard.

The keyboard on the 6300s was really pretty good.  It wasn't like a
bunch of miniature pogo sticks like an IBM, and it wans't mushy like
clone keyboards.  Of course, some people didn't like the key layout
but that is more of an issue for endless debate.