After a bit of struggle I finally have antiX (linux) and w95 running on my LXI.
What did I learn?
Lots.
The standard disk is a bog standard 40pin IDE. But the connectors are way far from stanard.
So I stripped the machine down. fitted a standard IDE cable in place of the standard cable. I took the +5 and ground from the battery charger connector and wired the beast up to a SD to 3.5” 40 pin hard-drive adapter.
Bingo, installs from CD onto the adapter.
Also installs to an externally fitted 3.5 IDE disk - but that is less pretty.
I had trouble doing instals of windoze to the SCSI drive (without an IDE) somway into the installs it got confused about 😄 and 😧 and e: Since it is windoze I just gave up and walked away.
Unix/Linix installs OK to scsi.
If I can can give anyone a hand with their kit, drop me a line.
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Questions:
Sound - does anyone know the corrects for the sound conector on military kit?
Network - where can I get a connector for the fibre? I run fibre in lots of places - but with SFP, not with that muckle big connector on the LXI.
Can anyone tell me what software ran on this kit? I would like to mock up some screens, but I have no idea what the function of this unit was.
Thanks
I used one of those in Jajce, Bosnia in 1997. It was at Bn HQ and was used to receive emails from Brigade HQ which were then distributed around the place. Generally the emails contained a copy of winword.cap which was the virus du jour. The AV software hadn't been updated in months...
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I used one of those in Jajce, Bosnia in 1997. It was at Bn HQ and was used to receive emails from Brigade HQ which were then distributed around the place. Generally the emails contained a copy of winword.cap which was the virus du jour. The AV software hadn't been updated in months...