>I'd say you got the CPU-board of a system that normally
>has a pasive ISA-backplane ......
>
>I've seen these in XT systems but not yet in a 286 issue
>(Headstart comes to mind) but given that Kaypro generally
>made luggable systems a deviating formfactor could be
>expected.
The Zenith Z-248 used a passive backplane with the 80286,
memory and all ports on cards. A 3rd party later released upgrade
CPU boards to take it to an 80386SX-16, with all RAM on the CPU card,
utilizing the existing backplane. The RAM and CPU slots were not
standard ISA.
Jeff
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Received on Mon Jan 07 2002 - 08:25:18 GMT