Have any software diskettes, programs, disk images, etc. I'll give that a try when I have a chance. I found that it tried to access a blank floppy diskette at boot time in the right drive, but I didn't have an MS-DOS boot diskette handy at the moment to see if it could boot from it. The CAGE code is for Sypris Electronics, and the boot screen shows a Honeywell copyright notice. In any case, I'll naturally want to try to dump and disassemble any ROMs I find inside of it. I haven't dug into it deeply enough yet to determine whether it's built around an embedded PC-clone architecture or is something completely custom. If the original software isn't present on the hard drive and recoverable, then this may be a great big doorstop! But it may also be a fun reverse-engineering project. I haven't found very much about the terminal online yet, and I expect that I have a long road ahead of me as I try to fix the display and see if anything can be recovered from the hard drive. Here are direct links to some of the more interesting pictures in that long thread: I shared a bunch of pictures on Twitter today as I unpacked it and started playing with it, in this thread: The screen has some bad rows and columns, and the gas spring that supports the display needs to be replaced. It powers up, but fails to boot from its internal hard drive. It looks unused, and it came with cables and manuals (-12 and -30, but not including schematic diagrams or component-level details). I just got an AN/UGC-144 communications terminal. And maybe somebody here even has the answers to my questions! I posted this originally on the ArmyRadios mailing list, but I think it's just computery enough that it may be of interest here, too. Next message: Speed now & then (Space and time?). ![]() Previous message: Instruction video on laserdisk.Software for AN/UGC-144 Communications Terminal? Mark J. ![]() Software for AN/UGC-144 Communications Terminal?
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