24 Sep
2008
24 Sep
'08
10:41 a.m.
Hi all --
Picked up an AST Hot Shot/286 over the weekend thinking it'd be a way to
trick out my already tricked out(*) PC XT. (Yeah, like I don't have
enough other projects going at the moment...)
No manuals or cabling, just the card w/10Mhz 286. It has a row of dip
switches on the "front" of the card, a 40-pin connector on the top and a
40-pin socket. I assume the socket is for an 8088 (or maybe a cable
Or maybe an 80287 floating point chip?
from the motherboard socket to the card?) and I'm
guessing the 40-pin
connector might have been for a RAM expansion.
My first guess would be that it's for a ribbon cable to the 8088 socket.
It might be just a plain header plug on the motherboard end, or it might
be a little daughetboard that takes the 8088 after removing it from said
motherboard socket, the daughterboard also having pins that go into the
socket.
But I don't know...
-tony