DEC Board, need help with info on...

From: Geoff Reed <geoffr_at_zipcon.net>
Date: Thu Jun 7 04:35:33 2001

Sweet :) now I just have to find drivers and pinouts for it :)

At 04:52 AM 6/7/01 -0400, you wrote:
>On June 7, Geoff Reed wrote:
> > The 29-28310-01 is off a digital label.
> >
> > also on the board are
> >
> > 90-0000308-001
> > and
> > 91-0000308-001-01
> >
> > (C) 1989 Corrolary INC.
> >
> > it's an ISA board with an 80186 2 zilog z0853004PSC's an AM9517A-5
> and a
> > boatload of pals on it, it looks kind of like a multiport serial card it
> > has mac looking ports on it that look just like the serial ports on a
> > macintosh or sparc IPC/IPX. (Mini-din8?) sorry, my memory is trashed
> this
> > am...
> > and i might be able to throw a picture online of it soon....
>
> Hmm...Z8530 is a [very nice] dual-channel serial I/O chip and the
>Am9517 is a DMA controller...which, rather decidedly, makes it a
>high-speed multiport serial card.
>
> The Z8530 is capable of synchronous and HDLC/SDLC operation as well,
>up to 2mbps if memory serves. I have no idea what this particular
>board was built to do, but it could even be something fancy like that.
>
> -Dave McGuire
Received on Thu Jun 07 2001 - 04:35:33 BST