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I came across a Unisys 6065 dual 486 processor with a passive backplane.
It 4 SCSI hard drives, a tape drive, and a 1.2 meg 5 1/4" floppy drive.
The I/O board has connections for everything but a monitor so I put a
monochrome graphics card in it to see what happens when I boot up.  The
screen doesnt show all of whats going on.  It cuts out words here and
there.  

I can see that it scans the scsi drives and Unix starts to load.   After a
couple of minutes the drive activity stops and the screen goes blank.  I
put in a floppy MS-DOS 6.2 disk and bootup up to an a:\ prompt but the
machine locks up as soon as the boot up stops.  I would like to get it
working and put Win NT on it.  I know there must be some way of changing
the system confiuration so I can put a 3 1/2" floppy drive in and to see
how much memery is on the memory board.  I just need some manuals for the
machine and I should be fine.  

Help!  Do you know where I can get manuals or help.

Jeff Lenartowicz

: I came across a Unisys 6065 dual 486 processor with a passive backplane.
: It 4 SCSI hard drives, a tape drive, and a 1.2 meg 5 1/4" floppy drive.
: The I/O board has connections for everything but a monitor so I put a
: monochrome graphics card in it to see what happens when I boot up.  The
: screen doesnt show all of whats going on.  It cuts out words here and
: there.  

Unisys U6000/65 Model has not graphics cards originally. So if you want
to see any messages of Unix on the VGA Mornitor, you should put VGA
color graphic cards in U6000/65, and then run SCU(System Configuration
Utility) Diskette. In the SCU, there is a option to change graphic cards
or dummy console using serial cable.

: I can see that it scans the scsi drives and Unix starts to load.   After a
: couple of minutes the drive activity stops and the screen goes blank.  I
: put in a floppy MS-DOS 6.2 disk and bootup up to an a:\ prompt but the
: machine locks up as soon as the boot up stops.  I would like to get it
: working and put Win NT on it.  I know there must be some way of changing
: the system confiuration so I can put a 3 1/2" floppy drive in and to see
: how much memery is on the memory board.  I just need some manuals for the
: machine and I should be fine.  

Well, I think you can contact local Unisys, and get some helps.
That machine is so old machine, so I don't have any manuals. :-(

: Help!  Do you know where I can get manuals or help.

: Jeff Lenartowicz

Good Luck,
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I'am not sure but I don't think NT can use the second CPU, this machine
is old
and I can't imagine it's compatible with Intel SMP standard. The
SCSI-controller
might also be a problem.

You can try to connect a dumb terminal to the serial port, the baudrate
normally is 9600. The lastest, and last I think, OS release for the
U6000/65
is SVR4 1.4.

Perhaps you should also send a note to comp.sys.unisys.

Michael Johansson