27 Jun
2007
27 Jun
'07
7:09 a.m.
On Jun 26, 2007, at 8:01 PM, Chris M wrote:
I would be happy to. Perhaps I'll take some pictures of it tomorrow.
The SBC is
currently sitting on the table behind
the 8/m, mostly
due to laziness on my part. The disk images reside
on the SBC's
system disk, which is a 1GB CF MicroDrive plugged
into the SBC via a
daughterboard. The SBC is headless; I access it
over the network.
You ought to document this arrangement. I get the jist of most of it, but yer SBC must have
integral ethernet.
It does.
When I see SBC I think Ampro or something LOL.
It's very similar to an Ampro x86 SBC that I also have in my junk
box. (if I could only turn it into a LittleBoard..) The SBC is a
Teknor VIPer 830.
And what sort of daughterboard (PC-104?).
Not PC/104...The Teknor board has a mezzanine slot (which I think
is proprietary) which takes a small daughterboard that's not much
bigger than a CF card. You plug the CF card into the daughterboard,
then snap that assembly onto the SBC. It's quite a nice arrangement.
I have
a few PMMX SBC's that I believe have ISA slot
capability (maybe even PCI), and even my Ampro Little
Board/PC has a header w/ISA signals.
Yes, this one is similar. It can take PC/104 and PC/104+ boards,
and the SBC itself can plug into a passive 16-bit ISA backplane. I
always found it odd that a board that has PC/104+ (which is PCI on a
different connector) capability would have an ISA card-edge connector
on it instead of PCI.
Some earlyish
SBC's have "flash" storgage capability, RE Robot/Vesta
OEM-188, but that's something different I take it
(like eeprom?).
Is it DiskOnChip(tm)? Many SBCs can take those, both early and
modern. I have a small pile of them somewhere.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL