3 Nov
2007
3 Nov
'07
5:25 p.m.
Subject: Re: WTB: LIM/EMS/XMS 16-bit ISA memory expansion board
From: woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:53:05 -0600
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Sounds like someone looking for an ASk 6Pak Pro.
Allison
Chuck Guzis wrote:
I am looking for anything that *DOES* not end in 86.
> . Make isn't important, as long as it'll
hold at least a couple of MB
and will work with a "plane Jane" 286.
<AOL>Me too!</AOL>
Seriously, I'm looking too.
Peace... Sridhar 
7 Nov
7 Nov
10:03 a.m.
On 3 Nov 2007 at 20:25, Allison wrote:
Sounds like someone looking for an ASk 6Pak Pro.
Do you mean "AST"? No, not really--I don't need all the other glarf;
just the memory. There was a plethora of makers of memory expansion
boards for the 286. I like the Intel Aboveboards, myself and avoid
the Everex versions, for example.
Cheers,
Chuck
8 Nov
8 Nov
5:25 p.m.
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Allison wrote:
Sounds like someone looking for an ASk 6Pak Pro.
Allison
Never used that one myself, but I did use an AST 6pak plus boards in PC/XT
systems. I still have at least two of them kicking around somewhere (quite
likely still installed in some of my IBM PC or XT systems).
Are the docs for these boards still available anywhere? I used to have
faxed copies that I got from AST, but those have likely become completely
unreadable by now.
5:49 p.m.
On 8 Nov 2007 at 19:25, Tothwolf wrote:
Are the docs for these boards still available
anywhere? I used to have
faxed copies that I got from AST, but those have likely become completely
unreadable by now.
Sigh. Some of my own technical info files, including some FAXed
engineering data from Teac have almost completely faded to
invisibility. Blueline drawings seem to suffer the same fate. I've
got the bluelines for the Integrand S-100 box if anyone can figure
out a way to read them.
Cheers,
Chuck
Information is fleeting...
7:57 p.m.
At 07:49 PM 11/8/2007, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Sigh. Some of my own technical info files, including
some FAXed
engineering data from Teac have almost completely faded to
invisibility. Blueline drawings seem to suffer the same fate. I've
got the bluelines for the Integrand S-100 box if anyone can figure
out a way to read them.
Does scanning help? Scan and boost the contrast. Maybe we need
infrared scanners.
- John
9:52 p.m.
John Foust wrote:
At 07:49 PM 11/8/2007, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Try a digital camera with different kinds of lighting. That might bring
out the drawing.
Jim Davis.
Sigh. Some of my own technical info files,
including some FAXed
engineering data from Teac have almost completely faded to
invisibility. Blueline drawings seem to suffer the same fate. I've
got the bluelines for the Integrand S-100 box if anyone can figure
out a way to read them.
Does scanning help? Scan and boost the contrast. Maybe we need
infrared scanners.
- John
5:56 p.m.
On 8 Nov 2007 at 19:25, Tothwolf wrote:
Are the docs for these boards still available
anywhere? I used to have
faxed copies that I got from AST, but those have likely become completely
unreadable by now.
Some--here's the one from stason.org:
http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/io-cards/A-B/AST-RESEARCH-INC-Multi-I-O-
card-SIX-PACK-PLUS-CARD.html
Cheers,
Chuck
10:02 p.m.
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Fred Cisin wrote:
Which of those will take "a couple of megabytes", rather than just
bringing the base system up to 640K?
The AST 6pak Plus was specifically for the IBM PC/XT and compatibles and
only goes up to 640k. There is a bank of dip switches for selecting the
amount of existing system memory.
Sounds like someone looking for an ASk 6Pak Pro.
Never used that one myself, but I did use an AST 6pak plus boards in PC/XT 
9 Nov
9 Nov
10:06 a.m.
Tothwolf wrote:
The AST 6pak Plus was specifically for the IBM PC/XT
and compatibles
and only goes up to 640k. There is a bank of dip switches for
selecting the amount of existing system memory.
For me, the nicest feature of the
6-pak plus was the clock.
--
Dick Hadsell 914-259-6320 Fax: 914-259-6499
Reply-to: hadsell at blueskystudios.com
Blue Sky Studios http://www.blueskystudios.com
44 South Broadway, White Plains, NY 10601
10:32 a.m.
On 9 Nov 2007 at 13:06, Richard Hadsell wrote:
For me, the nicest feature of the 6-pak plus was the
clock.
I have a Quadram Quadboard from about the same time. It made my 5150
with 64K of DRAM on the planar usable. The clock wasn't bad, nor
were the serial ports.
It was also possible to use a memory expansion card do at least 64K
of "infill" at segment A000. Somewhere, I have a patch to PC-DOS 1.1
to allow it to use the full 704K. I don't know if there was one to
allow for 736K if a CGA was used.
Cheers,
Chuck
10:04 a.m.
Tothwolf wrote:
Never used that one myself, but I did use an AST 6pak
plus boards in
PC/XT systems. I still have at least two of them kicking around
somewhere (quite likely still installed in some of my IBM PC or XT
systems).
Are the docs for these boards still available anywhere? I used to have
faxed copies that I got from AST, but those have likely become
completely unreadable by now.
I gave my 6-pak Plus docs to Chris M with my PC a
while ago. Maybe he
still has them.
--
Dick Hadsell 914-259-6320 Fax: 914-259-6499
Reply-to: hadsell at blueskystudios.com
Blue Sky Studios http://www.blueskystudios.com
44 South Broadway, White Plains, NY 10601
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