29 Jun
2001
29 Jun
'01
1:20 a.m.
Ethan Dicks skrev:
--- Iggy Drougge <optimus(a)canit.se> wrote:
> I went on a shopping spree at the fleamarket today (well... =).
> The card I bought is made by Novell, and has got the serial number 89935
> and the application number 5657. Those numbers are noted with a marker pen.
> The words "BOARD 738-61-001 REV B" are screened onto the board. The board
> itself is a small eight-bit ISA card without any connectors (save for the
> ISA card- edge, of course). The construction is quite simple, consisting of
> four 74LS chips (one 7407N and three 74LS244N), a PAL, an AMD AM25LS2521PCB
> (another
> 74LS chip?) and a big gob of glue which conceals another chip. That's it,
> apart from some discrete components. Bruno told me that it's some kind of
> diagnostics card, but not exactly what kind of diagnostics card.
I think it's a hardware key for some kind of Novell
software.
Oh my, how useful.
OTOH, it just might be, since I got an ancient copy of Netware this week.
There must be some higher power which is trying to coerce me into running
Netware.
> Then he had a KA410-A board, which my research
tells me is either a ?VAX
> 2000 or a VAXstation 2000.
The difference is a jumper - enable the onboard frame
buffer and look for
a keyboard/mouse or ignore the frame buffer and expect there to be a level
converter on the keyboard/mouse port and provide 4 TTYs.
I don't suppose one could use the monitor/keyboard/mouse cable of a VAXstation
II GPX?
Are there any pinouts for the PSU out there? Is there ay suitable replacement?
Also, is there any chance that the Ethernet is disabled? I read somethiung to
that effect but don't know how to tell. At least it's got a small chip which
claims to contain the MAC address.
> It's just a card and nothing else, though. I
don't
> suppose it's really feasible to construct a working system out of it? My
> friend bought it for the SCSI chip, which he intends to use in order to
> repair a Supra Amiga SCSI controller.
I'll trade you a 5380 chip for the uVAX board! No
desoldering required!
If only we weren't on separate continents. =) Since it's really my friends,
he'll take some coercing.
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
Amiga IFF (8SVX): This is the dominant [sound] format on the Commodore Amiga
platform. It can specify an arbitray sampling rate but ony supports mono 8-bit
sounds. It also supports a 2-to-1 lossy compression format which uses a unique
Fibonacci-delta compression algorithm.