anyone with an early Option Board?

________________________________ From: Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> [Signal direction link/switch] It didn't take me long to figure it out... Yes, the links on PC parts are often ridiculously poorly dcoumented. At about the same time I installed Microsoft bus mouse card for another chap. The docuemtneation that came with that told me to fti a particualr link if I was installign it in slot 8 of an XT. I now know what it does (connexts the siangle to 'that pin' (B8?) to eneable the dsata buffers on a read). but back then I;'d not read an XT Techref. And of coruse I was instialling it in an XT _clone_.... -tony C: Just getting back online. Been viewing posts on my idiot phone (which no longer registers a signal, or rarely), but it generally isn't worth it to reply. ?Anyway, my op didn't reflect the benefit of looking at the board. Since then I've seen that there is a card edge and a header connector. So I figure I'd be good to go w/2 standard floppy cables of any variety (I have loads). Question is what will I plug it into. Threw out a rusty AT last week, scrounged a PC and a PC/XT from the same dumpster (after throwing them out). Too much stuff still. ?What benefit this board represents is too early to tell. I have stacks of 8" and 5 1/4" disks that seemingly no computer likes thus far. It would be nice to "keep the pieces" as one old cctalker put in his sig. About the time I joined up (better part of 9 years ago). This stuff does intrigue me though. I must say.