> > 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!
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Tony Duell wrote:
> No, that makes it biased in your favour. It is trivial to find cards that
> nobody else will guess.... In at least one game of this type (having to
> guess something set by another person), the rules are worded so that it
> is in the interests of the setter to pick said thing (the machine
> configuration in this case) so that 1 or 2 people guess it correctly, but
> no so easy that everyone gets it.
OK
Maybe I should just split the disks with Tony,
Who's providing them?
Are they hard sectored or soft?
> > One of my 286 machines had one board DC37 female (NOT drive related)
> Hmmm.. I assume 'drive' includes tape drives (I've seen DC37s used for
> QIC32, etc).
> Maybe a multi-port serial card.
> > 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.
> I've seen at least one _odd_ serial card (I think it was Z8530-based)
> with that pair of connectors.
To use that hint, start by listing things that use both DB25s and use
DC37s,
That machine (not currently in use) did not have any serial ports,and
was used for desktop publishing and occasional disk format conversion.
> > 50 pin dual row header male
> QIC tape? SCSI? Custom TTL level I/O? I've even seen a pertec tape
> controller card with a single 50 pin header on it (and a special cable to
> the tape drive, of course).
SCSI, driving the floptical
> > DB25 female
> I asusme this is not printer. Maybe SCSI?
printer port, but not connected to a printer. driving a MicroSolutions
Backpack 2.8M
>
> > DC37 female
> > DC37 female
> External floppies? Tape drive?
floppies. Hard to say what's internal v external on a machine with no top
half of the case, and stuff pile on top, such as second power supply and
some floppies.
> > DE9 female, NOT CGA, nor MDA, nor EGA, nor VGA, nor PGA
> You've not said 'not video' here, so I am going to guess that it's either
> that NEC form of VGA that used a DE9, or maybe some strange high-res mono
> video (Signma made something like this I think)
Yes.
Wyse 700/Amdek 1280 1280 x 800 B&W video,
> > DE9 female, NOT video
> There was a card that gave the PC an Apple Mac-like 9 pin female serial
> port (you could use it to connect the PC to an Appletalk network). Maybe
> that.
> Or a bus mouse card?
Bus mouse.
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Received on Wed Aug 29 2001 - 19:25:32 BST