From edick@idcomm.com Thu Oct 25 18:50:22 2001
From: edick@idcomm.com
To: test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org
Subject: SLOT 8 (was: ISA cards for free..
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 18:50:22 +0000
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REALLY!  I had no idea that they'd so something so silly as dedicate a slot on
an otherwise modern (unlike the APPLE-][) backplane.

What's different about that slot?  I've never owned a "real" XT, so I've never
had to wrestle with that.  My first PC was a '186-based clone, and I've never
looked back. Was that "slot-8" compatibility creature a bug in the PC as well?

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin(a)xenosoft.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 5:11 PM
Subject: SLOT 8 (was: ISA cards for free..


> "SLOT 8" compatible IS NOT ABOUT 8 bit v 16 bit!
> "SLOT 8" compatible is whether it will work in an IBM XT (not
> compatibles) in slot #8 (the slot closest to the power supply).
> In the REAL IBM XT (not necessarily compatibles), that slot is different
> from the other 7.
>
> --
> Grumpy Ol' Fred        cisin(a)xenosoft.com
> <A HREF=3D "http://www.xenosoft.com/dogears" >DogEars</A>
>
>
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
>
> > ...stands to reason, since to PC had no 16-bit slots.
> >
> > Dick
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Eric J. Korpela" <korpela(a)ssl.berkeley.edu>
> > To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 3:34 PM
> > Subject: Re: ISA cards for free..
> >
> >
> > > > You mean that nobody wants a current-loop capable card? Zog!. The oth=
er
> > > > feature of these cards (if it's the IBM card I think it is) is that i=
t's
> > > > one of the few cards that will work in slot 8 of a real IBM PC/XT. It
can
> > > > assert the right signal to enable the bus buffers on the motherboard.
> > >
> > > Actually after some point just about everything started being designed
> > > to be slot-8 compatible.  I've got slot-8 compatible VGA cards....
> > >
> > > Eric
>
>

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