>I have a few AT&T machines, what "sorta" cable is a SOTA?
SOTA stands for [S]tate [O]f [T]he [A]rt, and was a product line by
(surprise, surprise) the State Of The Art Technology Incorporated company,
559 Weddell Drive, Sunnydale CA 94089. :)
The date for the manual for this particular card is 8/21/89, and I don't
think the company is still in existence. The card I'm working with isn't
6300-specific; rather, it's for any 8086/8088 computer.
The SOTA 386si card was/is an 8-bit ISA card that went into your 8086/8088
machine. You removed the CPU and inserted it onto the SOTA card. Then, a
cable (looking much like an IDE ribbon cable) attached to the SOTA card and
ran to the old 8086/88 socket and plugged in there. On boot, the card then
took over your processing and only used the original chips on the motherboard
for I/O.
An accelerator card, if you will. This particular one can boost an 8086/88
to a 386SX machine. Nifty, eh?
I also have a SOTA Memory 16i which is another add-on card that plugs into
the SOTA 386si and boosts the RAM of the machine to 4MB with 4 30-pin slots
for up to 16MB additional.
I'm looking to maybe push my 6300 up to a 386 with 16MB RAM and install Linux
on her. Maybe. :) We'll see. It'd be cool.
At any rate, the IDE-ish-looking cable for the 386si card is a standard 14"
cable. However, the 6300 requires a special 24" cable to handle getting from
the bottom of the logic board to the top of the machine where the card
interface is. This is what I'm looking for.
Tarsi
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> I have a few AT&T machines, what "sorta" cable is a SOTA?
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