trying to identify this 68K-based board...

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Wed Jan 16 19:44:46 2002

On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 Innfogra_at_aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 1/16/02 12:29:00 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> vze2wsvr_at_verizon.net writes:
>
> > It is an ISA-16 card. It has a 68000, w/2 27128 EEPROMs, 16 1259-15
> > RAM chips and Intel chips, 82586 and 8253-5. The rest looks to be
> > TTL, a couple of connectors and couple of crystals, 16 and 20 MHz.
> >
> > It was made by Bridge Communications, USA, in 1987. And it has a
> > D-shell 15 pin (like a Mac video -2 rows of pins) female connector on
> > the back.
>
> Could be an early AUI ethernet controller. The 82586 was intel's ethernet
> co-processor. It worked with a CPU chip. Ungerman Bass used an 80186 with the
> 82586 in their ethernet ISA cards.

Might also be a 3270 emulator board. These often used a twinaxial passthru
T type connector with a 15 pin D-shell connector on a pigtail that
connected to the board.

-Toth
Received on Wed Jan 16 2002 - 19:44:46 GMT