24 Mar
1999
24 Mar
'99
10:36 a.m.
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Bruce Lane wrote:
The only other maker that I know of that built
MCA-slot machines was NCR
with some of their larger servers.
Nope. Well before NCR licensed it, there was the Tandy 5000MC. The
first MCA machine on the market without bus-mastering crippled the
way it was on IBM's own early MCA systems. A damned fine machine
which of course sank like a stone. An uglier death than the Tandy
2000 sufferred.
--
Ward Griffiths
"the timid die just like the daring; and if you don't take the plunge then
you'll just take the fall" Michael Longcor