The AT&T PC 6300: A Retrospective

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Published on March 29, 2012 2:42:36 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUCh46_MzZU

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The AT&T PC 6300 / Olivetti M24 is a unique IBM PC clone mostly lost to history. This video attempts to rectify that, providing a brief history of the machine, covers how it was better than the IBM PC it was a clone of, and provides some side-by-side comparisons of performance-intensive software running on both the IBM PC and the 6300.

The AT&T PC 6300 was the first PC my family owned, and I have a soft spot for it -- in fact, most of the photos in this video are from my 6300, still working after nearly 30 years.

Some of the special high-res screenshots in the video were captured and converted from the real machine itself using software I wrote. The photos and video were obtained from a Samsung Epic 4G smartphone, which I regret, but I didn't have access to better equipment when I made the video. Someday I will re-make this video with better equipment.

Have an M24 or 6300 without a monitor? Build an adapter that lets you connect VGA monitors: ftp://ftp.oldskool.org/pub/misc/Hardware/ATT/Documentation/video_converter_output_to_VGA.pdf