Trixter
Veteran Member
I found a 6300 WGS at my company that has been apparently running since 1991 in active service. It was monitoring a UPS that has since died, so it has no purpose any more, so I asked them if I could have it. I believe the answer is yes, because otherwise it will be junked; if I get it, I'll take some pictures and post them.
There is very little information online about the 6300 WGS, but from what I could tell by looking at the back is that it is a 6300 that is "nicer" to ISA cards (it is running a special paradise VGA card that also supports AT&T 400-line and DEB modes, just like the Paradise VGA adapter that comes with the 6286). I also found some AT&T PC 6300 diagnostic disks, which I sent to Yzzerdd (did you get them?), which were interesting in that one of them was a "system diags" which is more comprehensive than the "customer diags" (the disk that came with 6300s).
In a wacko twist, it claims to be an 8086 yet is running Windows/286. I am pretty sure it is upgraded to an NEC V30 and that Windows "286" only uses a handful of opcodes that are supported by the V30.
All of this is a very very strong argument for me to start writing my "oldskool pc profiler" so that I can get to the bottom of these things without tearing machines apart... I will make it my next project.
If anyone has any information on what exactly a 6300 WGS is, please let me know.
There is very little information online about the 6300 WGS, but from what I could tell by looking at the back is that it is a 6300 that is "nicer" to ISA cards (it is running a special paradise VGA card that also supports AT&T 400-line and DEB modes, just like the Paradise VGA adapter that comes with the 6286). I also found some AT&T PC 6300 diagnostic disks, which I sent to Yzzerdd (did you get them?), which were interesting in that one of them was a "system diags" which is more comprehensive than the "customer diags" (the disk that came with 6300s).
In a wacko twist, it claims to be an 8086 yet is running Windows/286. I am pretty sure it is upgraded to an NEC V30 and that Windows "286" only uses a handful of opcodes that are supported by the V30.
All of this is a very very strong argument for me to start writing my "oldskool pc profiler" so that I can get to the bottom of these things without tearing machines apart... I will make it my next project.
If anyone has any information on what exactly a 6300 WGS is, please let me know.