15 May
2010
15 May
'10
6:36 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: $8500 Tandy ad from 1989
On 5/15/10 8:10 PM, Brian Lanning wrote:
Quite a few companies made MCA cards, I have them from Adaptec, Madge,
Iomega, Logitech, SMC, Orchid, Procomm, Kingston, Intel, Lantastic,
Cornerstone, Powergraph, Bustek, Daystar, 3com, and IBM.
Apricot, Dell, Tandy, Research Machines and Olivetti also made machines
with MCA.
It's fun to read this stuff. I didn't
realize microchannel was
available from anyone but IBM. And notice how it's MS(R) OS/2. :-)
http://www.stephenbailey.com/technology/what-8499-bought-in-1989/
MicroChannel *cards* were also made by (at least) 3Com and Silicon
Graphics. (Unless SGI only designed that fancy MCA video card for IBM and
let IBM make it...anybody know? Sridhar, you still have the one you got
from me a dozen or so years ago, right?)
Were there any other MicroChannel systems out there aside from IBM and
Tandy? I seem to recall there was at least one other.
MicroChannel is neat.
--
Dave>