I obtained a bunch of MB (1?) cards from a fellow list member. Mostly Intel, 1 Matrox
video card. Didn'y see a floppy controller anywhere, but I'll have to look closer.
I have an Intel 286/20 chassis (the 20 doesn't mean mhz). Got to get me a keyboard and
I'll be all set, right? O how I wish. There's an MDS keyboard on ebay, kind of
pricey. Have to wonder where I'd stick the plug. No ribald suggestions please.
So apparently my future has taken a turn for the very grim. As I'll be writing device
drivers from this point until my death. Yep. It's all rawhide and buffalo chips from
here on out. Maybe sum yu westerners can give me a hand. Fred, Chuck, Sellam. You're
all westerners and cowboys apparently. Just rustle up some docs and software for me.
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I'm assuming that the 286/20 is a series II type with monitor built in?
If so, it has a single density floppy controller built into the IOC board.
You didn't post any pictures so I can't tell if there is a controller set there.
Until I left Intel,
all the disk controllers were a two board set. One board was had the 3000 series bit
slice
chips and the other board had the analog board. When I was there, the double density,
M2FM boards sets were that way.
The series II keyboard was just a regular parallel, 8 bit keyboard. The earlier MDS 800
chassis
required a serial terminal. Most of these were made by BeeHive.
I left there when they were basically shutting down the development systems. They wanted
to move me to Rosedale, Ca.
Dwight
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Subject: [cctalk] Multibus card haul
I obtained a bunch of MB (1?) cards from a fellow list member. Mostly Intel, 1 Matrox
video card. Didn'y see a floppy controller anywhere, but I'll have to look closer.
I have an Intel 286/20 chassis (the 20 doesn't mean mhz). Got to get me a keyboard and
I'll be all set, right? O how I wish. There's an MDS keyboard on ebay, kind of
pricey. Have to wonder where I'd stick the plug. No ribald suggestions please.
So apparently my future has taken a turn for the very grim. As I'll be writing device
drivers from this point until my death. Yep. It's all rawhide and buffalo chips from
here on out. Maybe sum yu westerners can give me a hand. Fred, Chuck, Sellam. You're
all westerners and cowboys apparently. Just rustle up some docs and software for me.