I have come upon the mother of all Microchannel cards and now have in my
ownership a completely maxed IrisVision card with the driver discs, cables
and the technical reference manual. You would not believe how hard it was to
get hold of this thing.
While I already have a Microchannel system, a 55SX, it's running AIX 1.3 and
it's not worth it putting this card into that. What I want to drop it and a
few other nice cards I have collected like MCA sound and GPIB is something
like a Model 95 but for some reason I have terrible luck with them. With the
first one the deal went as far as paying for shipping before the guy
reconsidered, refunded me and recycled it. The other system and a half that
another collector had I almost got last month was working several years ago
and was as maxed as you could possibly get but was put into a garage and
over time due to poor placement and clueless relatives, both systems were
first written off my the harsh pacific coast air and then thrown away
because they looked to be worthless prior to them moving.
I'm still on the hunt for one and got all the extras I would ever need like
the Type 3 complex with an upgraded 5x86 processor, the reference manual and
diskette and a few other accessories like an internal CD drive and recently
I came across a 10/100 Microchannel card but still the 95 eludes me.
Why are these systems so remarkably hard to find when you need them? I know
someone who recycled about a dozen five months ago but of course, he didn't
know I needed one. :P