24 Nov
2004
24 Nov
'04
12:43 p.m.
At 11:30 PM 11/24/04 +0000, you wrote:
I'll post a picture soon and you can compare against it. Or Al should
have the manual poated soon. I'd guess that they're arriving at his place
any day now.
Just out of curiousity, let me know what kinds of Multibus card you find
in the NCR tower.
Hmm, well I've got the board here - it's an Excelan board, but doesn't
give a model number. Has two ROM chips in the centre (Labelled NX200H,
but I expect that's an NCR label). 80186 CPU toward the top-right to
drive things, and 128KB of RAM in two banks (with room for another
128KB)
The 80186 CPU and 128k sound right the the Excelan board. I just checked
the pictures that I took and I realized that the card in that computer was
an EXOS 201 made Computing Machinery Corp. I have an Excelan card in
another machine, I'll get a picture of it later.
Joe
On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 18:08 -0500, Joe R. wrote:
Uh oh - I reckon that might be a little expensive :)
It shouldn't be too expensive. They're FH 5 1/4" drives not 8".
Have you
(or someone else) got OS media, just in case we need copies for
ours?
I have some of it. There are one of two disks inside of some of the
machines. But I can probably do better than that! I just parted out four of
them today and they all had 85Mb hard drives. I can ship you the drives!
> >> It uses an Excelan EXOS 201 Intelligent Multibus Ethernet
Controller. I
have manuals
for it. One of them has already gone to Al.
I wonder if that's the same one as in my NCR Tower (which is also
multibus for the IO boards). EXOS rings a bell.
I remember EXOS from the photocopied documentation that I have I'm sure,
but I can't get at that easily to check right now.
cheers
Jules