My inner voice kept urging me to stop by the local used-computer place today despite my
currently low cash level. Now I know why.
Besides the SCSI connection adapter I needed, I also picked up a neat piece of computing
test equipment history. It's a V-ATE POST and diagnostic test card, made by Vista
Microsystems and vintage about 1991.
I remember seeing these things (and lusting after them, but I couldn't afford $2,300+
at the time) in the Specialized Products catalog of the time, right alongside the Lynx
floppy-disk tester/exercisers, RS232 breakout boxes, and other such goodies. I never in my
wildest dreams thought I'd ever own one.
This particular board will work in any AT-type system with an ISA slot. Besides doing the
usual POST code readout and diagnostic functions, it will also function as an AT-bus
specific logic analyzer.
God only knows what I'm going to use it for right now, but I just couldn't leave
it there to be picked up by some brainless boob who has no idea of the history of the
thing, much less how to use it!
<sigh> And I thought I was done collecting computer hardware some years ago. At
least I'm not bringing home VAXstations now... ;-)
Keep the peace(es).
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Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy,
Blue Feather Technologies --
http://www.bluefeathertech.com
kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m
"If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with surreal
ports?"