On Wed, 15 Feb 95 12:55:44 +1200 
 Cameron Blackwood <korg@rdt.monash.edu.au> wrote:

 > This reminds me of my dust collector. Its a 68020 (dunno the speed)
 > with 8 * 1Meg of ram, serial and 2 hpib cards. Its sort of useable,
 > except for the lack of IO and the slow drives.

Sounds like a machine I used to have :-)

 > IO is the main problem. The serial port can to 4800 (which is slow for
 > transfering data, like BSD kernels :-), but no LAN card. What sort of
 > price and availability for an ethernet card for one of these beasts?

Sheesh...I think someone had a LAN card he was giving away...I was gonna 
get it from him, but was never able to hook up...He may still have 
it...Mark?

 > I think its better to drop 1 Meg and gain NFS. Somehow I figure I
 > would get faster performance over NFS rather than getting binaries off
 > my HPIB (st506) disks (woof!).

Heh - I have one of those beasties on my 380, on the slow hpib interface, 
too...  woof.

 >  | 	310: 16MHz 68010 (runs hp-ux 5 and PAM - bleah...)
 >  | 	320: 16MHz 68020 (ROMS prolly say `Rev. B')
 >  | 	350: ??MHz 68020 (I think 25, but I'm not sure...)
 > 
 > Its a '20, but in a HP300 box. I will have to have a look!

Well, the 320 and the 350 just said ``300'' on the outside...

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