5 Oct
2008
5 Oct
'08
10 p.m.
On 6 Oct 2008 at 0:36, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Hmmm.... Bruce Irvine, same one who came out of
CDC, worked at
Atari's HCD for a short stint, then was actually at Mindset briefly ???
That's the guy. Another of the notorious SVLOPS CDC mafia.
The box I'm referring to is their 80186 design in
the black case with
the CPU in the lower pizza-box and then expansion module mounted ontop
of it. Basically a near identical design to the Mindset insofar as
stacking modules and such.
The box I have is taller, but less wide than an XT in beige. Really
cramped inside, but can hold 2 5.25" hh floppies and a FH 5.25" hard
drive. Beige with a 4-position keyswitch. First position is off,
second is on/run, third is on, keyboard locked, fourth is momentary
contact reset. Three LED indicators above that--a green one for
power on, a yellow for keyboard locked and a red for HD access.
Nothing mechanically standard as far as board mounting inside; I had
to drill some holes to accept standoffs to mount an XT mobo.
MAD got out of the box-making business and reorganized as an "AI
technology" outfit with some name talent (I assume recruited with
stock), then went down the chute not long after that.
Cheers,
Chuck