ACS Altos 3068

[Jules Richardson]

Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Am I the only person on the planet that still has one of these machines 
> ?

Possibly :-) The name sounds familiar, but I'm not sure why - possibly the 
museum was offered one (but likely turned it down as there sadly isn't 
infinite space for every UNIX system ever made)

 > The perticular example I have has 4M of ram and a 70M disk, and is
> running SysV unix. Acording to the documentation and the back of the 
> machine, it has a SCSI-1 interface however I have never been able to get 
> this working.

It's definitely single-ended SCSI and not differential? My NCR had an external 
SCSI interface, but it was differential (even though the internal disks were 
single-ended on a separate portion of the controller).

> I think I heard somewhere that the SCSI required a later version of the 
> OS

What devices were you trying to use? e.g. I wonder if they added OS support 
for SCSI streaming tape but not disk, or something like that...

cheers

Jules