28 Nov
2006
28 Nov
'06
1:52 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
The later Whitechapel Hitec series used MIPS R2000
CPUs IIRC.
Hmm, I've never seen a Hitec - just the MG-1 and the CG-200.
I have one complete machine, not in an original case,
but in a standard
PC/AT tower case. And quite a few spare boards in various states of
complete-ness.
Was the case based on the one used for the 32xxx machines? Or something
totally different? (Google is proving no help!)
Oh and a word of warning for the 32016-based MG1
Whitechapels. The
mainboard has 512K RAM, but the boot ROM needs 1.5M to boot.
Ha ha - that's interesting. I wonder why they did it that way? (I mean, why
put any memory on the mainboard itself if the system's always going to require
expansion boards anyway).
For some reason the MG-1 always makes me think "poor man's NeXT" :-)
cheers
J.