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AT&T UNIX PC enthusiasts out there?

This last VCF I dragged-in all four of my UNIX-PC machines. I cleaned them up and powered them on. It wasn't too bad to get three out of four working. The fourth motherboard is known good but the monitor cable is damaged and I don't have a fourth keyboard/mouse, so not too motivated to do more. I sold off one machine as well as the expansion chassis and I still want to keep at least one machine for a while.
I have imaged one of the drives, one is dead, one is dying, and one is fine but needs imaging, so that's the next project. It was fun to run one again, they really were pretty impressive for the era.
 
Teletech said:
It was fun to run one again, they really were pretty impressive for the era.
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Definitely a cool machine. They must have been pretty cost prohibitive when released which sounds like why a lot stayed for internal use at AT&T/Bell Labs and offloaded to colleges for cheap.

That expansion box is really something- three slots already seemed fairly reasonable to me, hah.
 
developer said:
How many people here own the real hardware?
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Thanks for fixing FreeBee. I too was wondering where are the FreeBee bug fixes posted?

I have owned UnixPC 7300, and 3B1. I think they are the best looking single enclosure microcomputer. Aesthetically speaking, they resemble a grown up Commodore PET 2001. Does any one else see the resemblance? Jim
 
agentb said:
Definitely a cool machine. They must have been pretty cost prohibitive when released which sounds like why a lot stayed for internal use at AT&T/Bell Labs and offloaded to colleges for cheap.

That expansion box is really something- three slots already seemed fairly reasonable to me, hah.
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US gov't was a big customer, as were many Fortune 500's. You would be surprised.
 
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