3 Jun
2014
3 Jun
'14
7:52 a.m.
On Monday (06/02/2014 at 07:49PM -0700), Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 06/02/2014 05:57 PM, Chris Elmquist wrote:
No--you're right. There was an ISA-like slot in it. Same connector
anyway but not the same signaling. There were few PC plugins that
worked in the slot. Only simple stuff like serial and parallel ports
but nothing with memory (such as a video card) or that required DMA
(like a hard drive) would work in the slot. Nicely done... but,
in those days, we were all still learning and so it took a few years
and several hundred machines before we knew what hit us.
--
Chris Elmquist
This thing had an 8086 in it, running 16-bit wide.
It had EuroDIN connectors
for the backplane and a home grown BIOS that changed pretty much every day.
It's been a long time, but we had a Stearns in Santa Clara (courtesy
of Neil). ISTR that it had one (1) ISA slot as well. Or am I
thinking of another sort-of PC?