Help needed restoring UNIX-PC

Philip Budne budd at bu-cs.BU.EDU
Wed Sep 7 19:23:25 AEST 1988


I have come upon a junked UNIX PC (particulars below).  The machine
was trashed because of presumed disk failure (grounding strap noise
from the HD?)

I would appreciate any advice on restoring it or using the parts to
build something else (know of any good 68020/bitmap/HD boards?).  What
I would like is a multitasking PC which runs GNU Emacs and uucp.

Thanks!
	Phil Budne, Boston University

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Bottom of case;
	PC7300 s/n 370429020 00160B

I have;
	Case, power supply, monitor, kbd, mouse, fans,
	PALS (sockets 25B, 24H), mother board;

	Top of Board (rear left)
		S4 CPU
		PCA D-60-00 222 REV M140 (sticker: PCT 3141)
		(c) 1984

	Bottom of Board (rear left);
		Diceon 3 MC 94V-0
		D-43-00222-00 Rev A (in box:) 1185

	Socketed chips (need placements);
	ROMS "72-00617" and "72-00616"
	40 Pin chip:
		Vli 507VR 6286
		VC2513
		32-00381-00
		MEXICO A

Missing;
	Hard disk drive, floppy disk drive,
		Acceptible replacemements?
	Cables for disks.
	All s/w and doc was discarded.

	Empty 40 pin sockets;
	22H 22E 21H 17C 2K

	Empty CPU socket (64 pin)
		68010?  What speed?

	Additional memory board.

Damaged;
	relay K5 (part no? DS1E-M??)

==

Q: Is 3b1 just another name for PC7300/UNIX-PC?

Q: What does it mean when people say they are running OS version 3.51
	is this S5R1? R2? R3?

Q: Is purchasing the chips on qty 1 going to be prohibative?
	are any of them custom?

Q: Would the platform run 'X'? Or is the window system reasonable?



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