PS/2s nicer than expected; some questions

From: Ward D. Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
Date: Wed Mar 24 10:36:49 1999

On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Bruce Lane wrote:

> The only other maker that I know of that built MCA-slot machines was NCR
> with some of their larger servers.

Nope. Well before NCR licensed it, there was the Tandy 5000MC. The
first MCA machine on the market without bus-mastering crippled the
way it was on IBM's own early MCA systems. A damned fine machine
which of course sank like a stone. An uglier death than the Tandy
2000 sufferred.
--
Ward Griffiths
"the timid die just like the daring; and if you don't take the plunge then 
you'll just take the fall"                                Michael Longcor
Received on Wed Mar 24 1999 - 10:36:49 GMT

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