8 Aug
2011
8 Aug
'11
12:25 p.m.
didn't have negative connotations (except in a
veterinary context?) They
also called the main circuit board "system" board, rather than
"motherboard", s'posedly due to the use of "mother" as a prefix
in widely
I've also seen it called the 'planar board'. I am pretty sure the
backplane in the expansio box is labeleld 'I/O Planar' or something very
similar.
What YOU were thinking of was the 5170 controller (WD?) that handled 2
ST412 style MFM drives (one 34pin (2x17) berg and one 20?) and 2 SA450
That's 1 34 pin (cotnrol cable) and _2_ 20 pin (data cabels from each of
2 drives).
Alas the disk cotnroller is one thing that's been changed in the 5170 I
am typing this on. I had to use a hacked IDE interface card to get a
reasonalbe size hard disk.
-tony