> Sounds GREAT!
> I assume that _I_ win the 300 5.25" floppies if nobody can correctly name
> all of the connectors on the back of the most obscure machine that I can
> come up with!
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Tony Duell wrote:
No, that makes it biased in your favour. It is trivial
to find cards that
nobody else will guess.... In at least one game of this type (having to
guess something set by another person), the rules are worded so that it
is in the interests of the setter to pick said thing (the machine
configuration in this case) so that 1 or 2 people guess it correctly, but
no so easy that everyone gets it.
OK
Maybe I should just split the disks with Tony,
Who's providing them?
Are they hard sectored or soft?
One of my 286
machines had one board DC37 female (NOT drive related)
Hmmm.. I assume
'drive' includes tape drives (I've seen DC37s used for
QIC32, etc).
Maybe a multi-port serial card.
one board DE9 female plus DB25 female, NOT video
nor parallel
HINT: the two above boards were separate boards from different
manufacturers, but the DC37 and DB25 were cabled to two inputs of a switch
box.
I've seen at least one _odd_ serial card (I think it was Z8530-based)
with that pair of connectors.
To use that hint, start by listing things that use both DB25s and use
DC37s,
That machine (not currently in use) did not have any serial ports,and
was used for desktop publishing and occasional disk format conversion.
50 pin dual
row header male
QIC tape? SCSI? Custom TTL level I/O? I've even seen a pertec
tape
controller card with a single 50 pin header on it (and a special cable to
the tape drive, of course).
SCSI, driving the floptical
DB25 female
I asusme this is not printer. Maybe SCSI?
printer port, but not connected to a printer. driving a MicroSolutions
Backpack 2.8M
DC37 female
DC37 female
External floppies? Tape drive?
floppies. Hard to say
what's internal v external on a machine with no top
half of the case, and stuff pile on top, such as second power supply and
some floppies.
DE9 female,
NOT CGA, nor MDA, nor EGA, nor VGA, nor PGA
You've not said 'not video'
here, so I am going to guess that it's either
that NEC form of VGA that used a DE9, or maybe some strange high-res mono
video (Signma made something like this I think)
Yes.
Wyse 700/Amdek 1280 1280 x 800 B&W video,
DE9 female,
NOT video
There was a card that gave the PC an Apple Mac-like 9 pin female serial
port (you could use it to connect the PC to an Appletalk network). Maybe
that.
Or a bus mouse card?
Bus mouse.
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