On August 27, Zach Malone wrote:
> first board is labled Heurikon on both of its tabs, and has the following
> lables over its connectors: Serial, FPI, FMS 1 2 3 4 (over a set of LEDs),
> reset, and SCSI. It seems to be a Motorola M68000 board of some sort as it
> has two small chips on it which are labled MC68000R10 and MC68450RC10, with
Not sure what this one is...likely a SCSI host adapter but perhaps
more. The 68450 is a DMA controller.
> further markings below them. Board number two is a 6U VME card with 4 large
> AMD branded chips on it, and two sub boards which lie flat on the VME card,
> it has a 10 pin plug on the back (just pins, it is 5x2) which extends from a
> daughter card which has an AMD chip labled Am29000 - 16GC, a minidin
> connector, 2 small LEDs, and then 4 large bulb like objects, which are
> alternatingly black, and red, the connectors for those are labled AT&T. I
This is a FDDI interface...Interphase 4211, most likely. The
bulblike objects are rubber covers over ST fiber connectors.
> then have 4 boards which are covered with chips, the majority of which are
> TI or Philips (?) branded. The ones which are in sockets have MX07?? or
> MX7?? (with ? representing any number) on them. These boards have no
> external connectors, nor back plates. Finally, I have a board with the
Not sure what this one is.
> Solbourne logo on one tab, and MUX on the other, and it then has 3 50 pin
> cables along the rear. It seems highly likely to me that this is a Xylogics
> 781 16-port MUX.
That sounds correct.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD
Received on Mon Aug 27 2001 - 13:30:24 BST