New Aquisition

[patscc]

breaking up

breaking up

tipc asked...huh? why break something like that up??

It's not really being broken up, the boards are being merely relocated to a more conventional 386 or 486 motherboard along with (hopefully) an image of the HD to do some tinkering with. I couldn't stand it and just gotta find the ADC on there. I'll post anything interesting, although that's a relative term, on this thread.

patscc

 

[Lutiana]

huh? why break something like that up??

I have no use for it. The software does not seem to run at all, or more to the point I think it is enabling that second video out on boot, but since I don't have the hardware to view it I'll never know.

Besides, the 3 DataBeam cards are the unknown aspect of it. The rest of the stuff has been identified. It would be nice to get the manual for the 386sx board though.

I also don't have the time to play with it (nor the equipment to tinker further), so I'll send it to a new home where someone can hopefully get it to work and quench my curiosity.

The back plane on the other hand is very cool and quite use full to me. I may leave it as a 386, or I might buy a SBPC 486 on ebay in the not too distant future.

I am pondering with the idea of turning it into a file server/bridge/utility machine for data transfers to and from the older stuff I intend to work with (for starts the XT).

 

[tipc]

I am pondering with the idea of turning it into a file server/bridge/utility machine for data transfers to and from the older stuff I intend to work with (for starts the XT).

all you really need is a USB-serial adapter thing. Assuming that is you lack a desktop/laptop w/an serial port.

It would be nice to find out what the thing's function was. To elaborate on my guess, it was used to create *high impact* drawings and transfer them lickity split. Was just a guess though. Video conferencing didn't come to mind. I'd be surprised to find out if that was the case actually, but who knows.

 

[Lutiana]

It's not really being broken up, the boards are being merely relocated to a more conventional 386 or 486 motherboard along with (hopefully) an image of the HD to do some tinkering with. I couldn't stand it and just gotta find the ADC on there. I'll post anything interesting, although that's a relative term, on this thread.

patscc

Did you ever work out what the hardware does?