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1. wohali 💯 (wohali@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2019 02:09:19 EDT wohali 💯

   so the machines I have received include an enormous pile of WICAT machines.

   These were the first 68000-based machines ever made.

   They run an in-house developed OS that feels very much like VMS had a love child with MS-DOS. (More details soon).

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   1. wohali 💯 (wohali@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2019 02:13:44 EDT wohali 💯

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      The smallest and first WICATs were the S140/S150s. I have 2 not-complete S150s; I have the MFM drives but no controllers (yet), and no keyboards. Here's a picture. Keyboard plugs in underneath on the left side.

      1. wohali 💯 (wohali@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2019 02:18:28 EDT wohali 💯

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         The next size up machines are S-1250s. They look a bit like PC-ATs or similar. They have the same number of backplane slots, but no built-in terminal. All comms are via serial port or ARCNet (or, if you're extremely lucky, Ethernet).

         All the WICATs I have are Multibus based. Very late models had a custom backplane.

         Here's a photo of the 2 I have, and the backpanel of one. Yes, that's 16 serial ports and 2 parallel ports. Sorry, it's not colour corrected (yet).

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         1. wohali 💯 (wohali@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2019 02:21:27 EDT wohali 💯

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            The biggest machines I have are the S-2255 and S-2275 machines. These are towers that slide out at the back, with room for 6 *full-height* 5.25" drives or 12 half-height. 2 bays are exposed (for tape drives, etc.)

            The backplanes in this are double size (12 slots). Most machines have upgraded (68020, 16MHz) CPUs with multi-megabytes of RAM (4-16MB). This one has 28 serial ports and 3 parallel ports + a SCSI controller!

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