Intel and weekends hauls

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Mon Feb 4 17:00:49 2002

Hi Guys,

   I found some goodies this weekend. I went to a place that gets lots of
computer scrap and found them tearing apart a huge machine. It has three
separate chassis in it and one of them was Multibus!

    I "rescued" nine Multibus cards. Four of them are Augut brand
prototyping cards. They're full of socketed ICs. These are the nice
expensive prototyping cards with the built-in IC sockets that use machined
pins and sockets. One of these even has four 2901 bit slice CPUs on it. I'd
sure like to have seen what this system was before it was scrapped.

   The other five cards are Intel cards. Three of them are iSBC 286 single
board computers. One has at least four Mb of RAM and the others have at
least 1 Mb of RAM on daughterboards. They all also have iSBX cards marked
"Orbot I/O Channel (iSBX) CS". I haven't been able to find any listing of
them. They're not shown in my '86 OEM Boards Handbook. One also has an iSBX
344 Bit Bus card.

   I also got one iSBC 214 Peripheral Controller Subsystem. Wahoo! NICE
card! It handles up to four SD or DD floppy drives, up to two ST 506 hard
drives and up to two QIC-02 tape drives. I'd sure like to get that on
working on one of my MDS machines! Side note: There was a 5 1/4" CDC hard
drive there. It may have worked with this controller. I'll have to go back
and pick it up too.

    Finally I got one iSBC 534 Four Channel Communication Expansion Card.

    Does anybody have docs for any of these cards??

    I also found a NICE case with some kind of Motorola Exorbus cards in
it. I grabbed it and threw it into the car but I haven't had a chance to do
anything with it yet.

    Then today, I went looking through some old catalogs and I found two
more Intel books. One is Memory Design Handbook dated 1977 and the other is
Intel System Data Catalog dated 1978. It shows the MDS 210, 220, 230 in
good detail and it has a good section about the uScope 820.

 
    That's a pretty good haul if I do say so myself!

    More later,

    Joe
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