18 Apr
2013
18 Apr
'13
5:17 p.m.
On 04/18/2013 01:14 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Like other application-specific boards, they usually came with a driver
disk and likely a 3270-ish terminal program.
I wonder how they handled the extended keyboard buttons. Did they include a
keyboard? ;)
Yes, there was a special keyboard.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Yeah. Every time I think of IBM mainframe designs...I
can't help but wonder
why microchannel for the microcomputer market never took off.
I'm not sure it's fair to say that it never took off. It was very popular
for a long time. Many manufacturers made MCA cards. It was also big in the
RS/6000 world.
However...that has nothing at all to do with mainframes. Some of the
"baby" development system "mainframes" like the P/390 do use
MCA...there's an
MCA version of the P/390 card. (that was the first one, the next two were PCI)
MCA was really a microcomputers-only bus.
That
interface board allows one to connect a PeeCee (or a Mac, or whatever
it's for) to one of those establishment controllers.
I want to know more about these boards now, did software come with them?