7 Apr
2003
7 Apr
'03
5:47 p.m.
the "blue" card sounds more like an arcnet card rather than ethernet.
Ethernet would have a BNC and a AUI 15 pin DB type connector
on the back. The arcnet card was a coaxial cable type connection.
The blue really rings a bell asn well as the processor. I did
a bit of work in the early day with arcnet before ethernet became
the standard.
best regards, Steve Thatcher
really
--- Original Message ---
From: "Witchy" <witchy(a)binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
To: <cctech(a)classiccmp.org>rg>, <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: 4/7/03 11:23:55 AM
-----Original Message-----
> From: cctech-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-admin@classiccmp.org]On
> Behalf Of John Honniball
> Sent: 04 April 2003 20:28
> To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: IBM 5161
>
>
> Witchy wrote:
> > A surprise consignment arrived for me this morning - an
IBM
> 5150 in not bad
> > condition complete with keyboard/monitor and a 5161 expansion
box, spare
> > expansion card and 2 extender cables.....
>
> Just had a look at the images on the Binary Dinosaurs site,
and I see
> that you have a blue, full-length card with an
8X305 on it.
This is
> a bit-slice CPU chip, so I'm curious as to
what this card
is. Does
anyone
recognise it?
It's a *something* Decision card, complete with a BNC port......I should've noted it's name as it struck me as
odd, as well as
the size of the
CPU; still, the machine is easily accessible downstairs
so I
can dig it out
tomorrow and photograph it properly. Could it have been
ethernet
related?
There's KA9Q software on the HD in the expansion
too, which
is why I think
that.
More info tomorrow :)
cheers
--
adrian/witchy
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