23 May
2020
23 May
'20
7:07 a.m.
Did anyone ever do any research into the early history of Nubus, wrt Western Digital, TI
or Steve Ward/MIT/Numachine?
23 May
23 May
7:11 a.m.
On 5/23/20 7:07 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
Did anyone ever do any research into the early history of Nubus, wrt Western Digital, TI
or Steve Ward/MIT/Numachine?
I was just thinking that it is interesting that WD is credited for inventing Qbus through
the WD16 chipset and Nubus
because of the Numachine, but I can't really find any documentation for the WD/Nubus
connection.
27 May
27 May
11:15 p.m.
Side note that has been lost to history.
From 1987-1990 I worked at Mizar Digital Systems, which
built STD bus
boards and VMEbus boards. Its new president who came in in 1988 I
think,
Joe Rammunni, decided that the STD bus was a dying technology, and looked
into NuBus. As I understood at the time, he went and talked to various
PC manufacturers to try to get them to adopt the standard as well, for
their next round of upgrades from ISA.
Nothing came of this. Without the unified market there wasn't any
incentive for Mizar to get into the business. But just imagine what
the tech world would have looked like with interchangeable cards for
PCs and Apples.
The only remnant of this effort are my vague personal recollections
and a "NuBus on board" fridge magnet which I retain to this day.
mcl
28 May
28 May
2:57 p.m.
On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 12:15 AM Mark Linimon via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
But just imagine what
the tech world would have looked like with interchangeable cards for
PCs and Apples.
We have that now, and it really doesn't seem to be of all that much benefit.
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