[Milsurplus] Re: SAIC V2 LC

[Patrick Jankowiak]

Hi Ray,

Thanks for the great info on these. I have been digging through 
the 30-pin simms here. Finding alot of 256K ones!

There is a scsi driver online for the CDROM, but I do not know if 
it is for 3.1 or 95 or 98.

http://w4.pica.army.mil/eod/pubs/v2_computer.htm

Have you tried this out?

Patrick



Ray Fantini wrote:

> The power supply is just a regular 24 volt DC power supply, although the
> plug has about twenty wires most are for charging the internal battery.
> the box works just fine from standard 24 volt source. the internal
> drives are just regular run of the mill IDE hard drives, the carrier had
> a additional circuit for a heater elements but unless you are going to
> use it in sub zero temp dont worry about it. I have installed win 95 on
> several and had no problems running it, dont think 98 would work. all of
> them that I have seen come with 32 megs, four 8 meg 30 pin simms so they
> have the memory for 95. I thought that I would pop out the basic 486 CPU
> and install some 486 DX 4 overdrive I have but never got around to it.
> theirs a big heat sink on the CPU attached to the case that would
> require some work. they usually have thicknet network boards  you can
> throw them out and install regular ISA network boards and use the old
> phone connecters ( after changing them) to bring it to the outside
> world. I also install newer IDE boards so you can use two ports so it
> will connect to a CD drive, or if you have a SCSI CD drive you can use
> the internal SCSI board although the win 98 boot disk wont work with
> SCSI. the 98 disk is great for initialing 95 too. Have fun with it.
> Ray Fantini KA3EKH
>