Antron MST300 (was:RE: Up for Grabs: Intel ICE boxs and pods) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

30 Nov 2001

  If you mean Atron then yes I've heard of them. if fact, I was just
searching for info on them this morning. I have two full length IBM PC
style cards that are both marked "Atron", one plugs into an 8 bit ISA slot
and the other plugs into a 16-bit ISA slot. The cards have a ribbon cable
that connects them together at the top. One is marked "Master Break Trace"
and the other is marked "Slave Break Trace". (looks like they're for an
emulator). Both boards have a large male 3U type connector on the outside.
I've posted a picture at
<http://www.intellistar.net/~rigdonj/ebay/boards.jpg>.  FWIW I pulled these
out of an old 286 Compaq Deskpro.  I wanted to get the drive but it was
already gone :-(

   Joe

At 05:13 PM 11/30/01 -0000, you wrote:
...
 Speaking of chip testers has anyone come across the
Antron company and their
testing equipment? Antron are still going and still selling test kit to the
likes of Compaq, but since they didn't reply to my email I'm assuming they
had no old documentation.

Basically the MST300 is a 386 based PC with 2 extra ISA cards that interface
with the testing 'pods'. I've got pods for the 8086, 80286, 80386SX and DX,
Moto 68K and I'm still not sure what they were supposed to be testing!

I'll post pix on Binary Dinosaurs when I get 'em taken :)

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