Back from the fleamarket

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Fri Jun 29 08:20:20 2001

Ethan Dicks skrev:

>--- Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se> wrote:
>> I went on a shopping spree at the fleamarket today (well... =).
>> The card I bought is made by Novell, and has got the serial number 89935
>> and the application number 5657. Those numbers are noted with a marker pen.
>> The words "BOARD 738-61-001 REV B" are screened onto the board. The board
>> itself is a small eight-bit ISA card without any connectors (save for the
>> ISA card- edge, of course). The construction is quite simple, consisting of
>> four 74LS chips (one 7407N and three 74LS244N), a PAL, an AMD AM25LS2521PCB
>> (another
>> 74LS chip?) and a big gob of glue which conceals another chip. That's it,
>> apart from some discrete components. Bruno told me that it's some kind of
>> diagnostics card, but not exactly what kind of diagnostics card.

>I think it's a hardware key for some kind of Novell software.

Oh my, how useful.
OTOH, it just might be, since I got an ancient copy of Netware this week.
There must be some higher power which is trying to coerce me into running
Netware.

>> Then he had a KA410-A board, which my research tells me is either a ?VAX
>> 2000 or a VAXstation 2000.

>The difference is a jumper - enable the onboard frame buffer and look for
>a keyboard/mouse or ignore the frame buffer and expect there to be a level
>converter on the keyboard/mouse port and provide 4 TTYs.

I don't suppose one could use the monitor/keyboard/mouse cable of a VAXstation
II GPX?

Are there any pinouts for the PSU out there? Is there ay suitable replacement?
Also, is there any chance that the Ethernet is disabled? I read somethiung to
that effect but don't know how to tell. At least it's got a small chip which
claims to contain the MAC address.

>> It's just a card and nothing else, though. I don't
>> suppose it's really feasible to construct a working system out of it? My
>> friend bought it for the SCSI chip, which he intends to use in order to
>> repair a Supra Amiga SCSI controller.

>I'll trade you a 5380 chip for the uVAX board! No desoldering required!

If only we weren't on separate continents. =) Since it's really my friends,
he'll take some coercing.

--
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platform. It can specify an arbitray sampling rate but ony supports mono 8-bit
sounds. It also supports a 2-to-1 lossy compression format which uses a unique
Fibonacci-delta compression algorithm.
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