16 May
2006
16 May
'06
4:02 p.m.
Joe R. wrote:
At 05:31 PM 5/15/06 -0700, you wrote:
Yes, I currently use mine as "console" for my Unisite.
I've hacked it to support a 600MB drive which gives me
plenty of room for ROM images, etc. (hence my previous
comments about how to support "unsupported" disk drives
in older equipment)
Let me know since I have a Compaq Portable III
that I am equally
pondering... :-/
If your P III has the backpack option it will take regular ISA cards.
The P -IIIs with the backpack make nice controllers for EPROM burners, HP-IB and HP-IL controllers and similar uses that
require a slow system and
an ISA slot that you plug in an interface card into.
I assume the "backpack" is the "expansion chassis"?
No, I haven't (yet) acquired one. I had tentatively
been planning on using it to host an OPUS PM -- since
I believe the expansion chassis will handle *two*
(full length?) ISA cards (the second card being a
NIC for the PM). But, I am not sure if:
- it supports full length cards (the PM is such a card)
- power supply can support the PM
- the PM's daughter card will encounter mechanical interference
- NIC will fit in the case *with* the PM's daughter card
Since it hasn't been a priority and it doesn't take up
much *space*, I haven't pursued it...