XT Clone with a bus board?

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Sat Nov 30 19:13:00 2002

On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Sark wrote:

> I ran across an old XT clone with bus board in it instead of a true
> motherboard. I have never seen an IBM PC compatible computer like this
> before. Is this common? I have several XT's, but all the ones I have
> ever seen had an actual motherboard. I just thought this was an
> interesting machine. I have some pictures of it -
> http://24.194.68.104/computerland_xt.html. Does anyone know anything
> about this? Were there other PC's made like this?

Kaypro produced some passive backplane machines in that era, and PCPI
produced a series of cards for passive backplane machines. There were
others, I'm sure.
                                                - don

> BTW - I hope the page will work OK, it's on an old Pentium 166 running
> Linux I use as a webserver.
>
> Ian Primus
> ian_pimus_at_yahoo.com
>
>
Received on Sat Nov 30 2002 - 19:13:00 GMT

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