16 May
2010
16 May
'10
10:46 p.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
I still have it. It still works. And it has SGI manufacturing stickers
on it. And there were literally *dozens* of companies making
MicroChannel *cards*. SysKonnect made an MCA FDDI card. AST made
processor and memory upgrades. Adaptec made SCSI cards. ATI made a
couple generations of video cards. Creative Labs made a couple
generations of SoundBlaster sound cards. AdLib had an MCA card. Roland
made an MPU-401 interface card for MCA. I even have a pile of MCA
10/100(!) ethernet cards for PS/2 made by Olicom, new in box.
And that's not even talking about the giant pile of cards made by a
variety of manufacturers for MCA RS/6000s.
There were more than half a dozen companies making the *systems*.
Peace... Sridhar
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?)