Nice find! I have a vague recollection of doing repairs on something similar that was used as a Unix machine to run cash registers at a pharmacy during the late 80s. Sure looks familiar. Any idea what it runs?
Ian Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 14, 2015, at 12:47 PM, Chris Osborn <fozzt...@fozztexx.com> wrote: > > Last week while bored and browsing eBay looking at things that are ending > soon something I had never heard of caught my eye: an Altos ACS 8000-15A. I > looked at the pictures and googled the brand and model and it didn’t seem to > be a very common computer and there were no bids on the item so I put in a > fairly low bid. I ended up winning! :-) > > The seller asked if it would be ok to bring the item to me the next time he > was in my area. I figured that was fine since I was concerned that since it > has a large 8” hard drive in it that it would be more likely to be damaged in > shipping. I actually didn’t even need to wait very long! Friday he set out to > drive across 2 states and dropped off the computer at my front door on > Saturday morning. Talk about excellent service! > > I buy lots of untested items on eBay and usually they work just fine. But > luck hasn’t held for me this time and so far the Altos doesn’t work. I can > hear the drives spin up and all the voltages from the DC power supply are > perfect. But nothing spits out on the Console 1 RS232 port. From what I > understand the serial ports are wired DTE (which seems odd since you use it > with terminals) and so I’m using a null modem adapter. Although with the null > modem or without I get nothing. > > Anyways, I posted an album with lots of pictures here: > > http://imgur.com/a/9X8Gh > > Yay another project for me to fix! :-) > > -- > Follow me on twitter: @FozzTexx > Check out my blog: http://insentricity.com > > > > --- > Filter service subscribers can train this email as spam or not-spam here: > http://my.email-as.net/spamham/cgi-bin/learn.pl?messageid=9CF9344E12CF11E58BB8749D93ED0201
