Over the weekend, I acquired a new toy called an Intel Wildcard WC88. It consists of a card in 72 pin SIMM format - only taller - ... ...I have searched the Web to no avail seeking any reference to this mini-XT. If anyone has one or has heard of one, or... I would certainly appreciate hearing from them. I have know idea what Intel intended when they put this thing together - for sale, demo, sales tool, ??? But I'd like to know.

Over the weekend, I acquired a new toy called an Intel Wildcard WC88. It consists of a card in 72 pin SIMM format - only taller - that contains a surface mount 8088 chip hiding under a glob of epoxy. Also carries an xtal, 640k memory, another - unidentified - chip under epoxy, a BIOS EPROM, and a few glue chips. The edge connector is 72 pin SIMM style. There is also a (basically) passive motherboard that carries a 72 pin SIMM socket, a keyboard connector, three 8-bit ISA sockets, and a handful of chips. The Award BIOS displays a message on bootup that 'this is a demonstration BIOS and is not to be sold'. I have searched the Web to no avail seeking any reference to this mini-XT. If anyone has one or has heard of one, or... I would certainly appreciate hearing from them. I have know idea what Intel intended when they put this thing together - for sale, demo, sales tool, ??? But I'd like to know. - don