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Re: IBM RT and 5085-2 need some hardware

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On 08/03/2011 02:12 PM, John Clausen wrote:
> My IBM RT is well on the road to recovery. I have a Seagate hard drive
> and all the disks needed to load AIX 2.2.1.
>
> I plan to hook up an IBM 5085-2 graphics processor to my RT. I would
> have called it a graphics terminal, but I didn't name it. I have the
> 5085 and the cable coming from the unit. I am looking for the card for
> the RT and the Peripheral adapter??? for the 5085.
>
> I believe the card for the RT is called the 5080 interface, but I am
> not sure. The peripheral adapter is supposed to plug into the cable
> from the 5085 and allow the RT and 5085 to share the keyboard and
> mouse.
>
> Anyone out there still have some of these parts and maybe some advice?

   Talk to Sridhar Ayengar, I will email you his contact info privately 
if you can't find it, let me know.  He might have what you're looking 
for.  I myself have a bunch of RT stuff, but I (sadly) don't have one of 
those graphics subsystems.  Good luck finding those parts!

            -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL

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IBM RT and 5085-2 need some hardware John Clausen <clausentek@gmail.com> - 2011-08-03 11:12 -0700
  Re: IBM RT and 5085-2 need some hardware Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com> - 2011-08-20 02:25 -0400
  Re: IBM RT and 5085-2 need some hardware Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> - 2021-02-18 09:33 -0700

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