12 Oct
2005
12 Oct
'05
7:28 p.m.
--- Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
I am not sure what you consider to be a high chip
count...100-200 ICs is
fairly common, I am sure I've seen boards with more
than that.
It was around or a bit more then 200. Much more then
a vanilla PC mobo. But like I said, video and floppy
and parallel/serial logic was included. It's just that
an 80186 was supposed to reduce the chip count. But
that wouldn't apply to pc stuff - which is why I guess
it was found on so many sbc apps. If you did use an
80186 as was intended by Intel, you wouldn't have a
100% compatible as someone pointed out. But a few
units used it like a fast '86, and in fact there was a
true clone built around one by a company in
California. I have the ad somewhere...
This reminds me of an IBM colour teerminal that I
rescued about 10 years
ago...
Sounds like the one I had, save for the rom
cartridge???
...That gave most of the
processor bus signals, of
course. -SPECIAL_W0QQitemZ5761702936
I know it wasn't a Peanut, but sounds like one ;). A
groovy unit no doubt.
It turns out the 3196/7 was probably the very model
number. There's some on Epay right now, in somebody's
store in Canada, but they're asking way too much.
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