What's your coolest ISA card?( was Re: IBM 5150 PC)

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Tue Aug 7 17:20:42 2001

What's more fun is having the SCSI card serving a disk for you 4Mhz Z80
system. Now you have the "superior" 16 bit CPU of fetching disk blocks for
the "inferior" 8 bit CPU :-)

At 05:52 PM 8/7/01 -0400, you wrote:
>> I used to feel the same way when I was running a TRS-80 Model
>> 2000 and I'd see caching SCSI controllers that used the same 80186 as a
>> coprocessor on the board. There's something humbling about seeing your
>> main CPU relegated to coprocessor status!
>
> Jeff
Received on Tue Aug 07 2001 - 17:20:42 BST