386 SBC available (was Re: Demography?)

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Sun Mar 1 22:10:21 1998

<> Correction it's the BIG blue box. Mine is circa '76 or earlier and was
<> used by the DEC VT100(and others) development team.
<
<Hmm, the one I'm thinking of may be a later vintage. But if BIG means
<a cube about 3' on a side, then it may be the same.

The MDS800 was about 13" tall, 28" deep and 19" wide box and the 8" disk
box was another 8" or so tall. Nice multibus system. Most of the MDS
systems were nominal rack width. My favorite was the series 225 with the
integrated crt and seperate keyboard, did a lot of development time on
those. I wouldn't mind finding one.

<You've caught me with my hardware pants down. To my software eyes, they
<look like VME cards, but I know Intel doesn't do much VME stuff. They'r
<386-16 boards from circa 1987 (just slipped under the 10-year barrier).

Two bus edge connectors 12"wx6.5"? If so it's Multibus.

Myself I'd find a 80/10 or 80/20 or BLC80/204 for multibus more appealing
as I can use them.

Allison
Received on Sun Mar 01 1998 - 22:10:21 GMT

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