On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 mjsnodgr_at_rockwellcollins.com wrote:
> Sounds like you've discovered the classiccmp version of the "guess the
> number of pennies in the jar and win $100" game. A grand prize of 300
> 5.25" floppies goes to the person who can correctly name all the connectors
> on the back of the most obscure machine that Fred can come up with. <grin>
Sounds GREAT!
I assume that _I_ win the 300 5.25" floppies if nobody can correctly name
all of the connectors on the back of the most obscure machine that I can
come up with!
Who will be giving me the floppies? If I can include some of the boards
that I gave away in the last two years (clearing my space), I don't think
that I have much chance of losing. I could probably win a similar contest
based just on floppy stuff.
One of my 286 machines had one board DC37 female (NOT drive related)
one board DE9 female plus DB25 female, NOT video nor parallel
HINT: the two above boards were separate boards from different
manufacturers, but the DC37 and DB25 were cabled to two inputs of a switch
box.
50 pin dual row header male
DB25 female
DC37 female
DC37 female
DE9 female, NOT CGA, nor MDA, nor EGA, nor VGA, nor PGA
DE9 female, NOT video
9 floppies (2 360, 1 720K 5.25, 1 1.2M 5.25, 1 8", 1 1.4M/floptical, 1
2.8M, 1 3", 1 3.25") (NOTE: some of the floppies were connected through
switches, and could not ALL be used at the same time.)
The machine had no lid for the "case", and usually had 2 power supplies.
The machine next to it was an IBM XT with 6 floppies (no switches, all
drives active):
A: 360K
B: 360K
c: 720K 5.25
D: 720K 3.5
e: hard drive
g: 1.4M/floptical
H: 2.8M
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Tue Aug 28 2001 - 15:46:29 BST