Intel RMX 86/330 system & 380 startup questions - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

1 Dec 2002

In a message dated 12/1/02 1:46:41 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com writes:

...
  The 310/330 are white boxs that are about the a size
of a PC chassis. The 
 86/330 is an aluminium/steel chassis that's 16" tall x 16" wide x 24"
deep. 
 The ones that I had had 8" floppy drives and 8" hard drives, the 310/330 
 use 5 1/4" floppy drives and have an optional 5 1/4"(?) hard drive.  The 
 86/330 used an 8086 CPU, the 310/330 use 286s IIRC.

The Intel 310 is a desktop similar to a PC that uses any multibus 1 
processor, 8080 to 80286. Actually I think it will run the Multibus 1 386 
card too. It has a 6 slot Multibus chassis and uses 5 1/4 Hard and floppy 
drives.

The 330 and 380s are the 16"X16"X24 white aluminum boxes. The 330 has a 6 
slot Multibus card chassis combined with a 8" Floppy and 8" hard drive, 
usually a Priam 3450 35 meg drive. 

The 380 is a two 16"X16"X24 box set that is a 14 slot Multibus 1 backplane in 
one of the boxes and the drives in a separate nearly identical cabinet, 
usually housing a 1/4" tape drive along with the 8" floppy and 8 inch hard 
drive.

Both the 330s and 380s will handle any Multibus CPU card from the 8080 to the 
386. In fact the 380 can run multiple CPU cards. 

86/330 indicates an 8086 card in a 330 cabinet.

The Intel 320 cabinet is a desktop with a Multibus II backplane that uses 5 
1/4' drives. I don't have one of these.

I am going to sort this stuff out this winter & will catalog the docs then.

Paxton
Astoria, OR