IBM Cluster Adapters

From: Guy Sotomayor <ggs_at_shiresoft.com>
Date: Tue Dec 30 18:52:16 2003

On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 14:02, Brian Heise wrote:
> Well, the IBM PCjr cluster adapters, we have...the issue is trying to find the standard IBM Cluster adapters to communicate with them. They are out there, it's just a matter of WHERE!?
>

They're not *that* complicated, so if you had to one could whip up a
"clone". The prototypes were not much more than a USART running at
56kbps over coax. The production ones run at 250kbps.

> Brian
>
> Guy Sotomayor <ggs_at_shiresoft.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 12:37, Brian Heise wrote:
> > Dave
> >
> > We have a ISA to PCjr Bus card that allows the use of some ISA, non-IRQ cards with the jr...thats why :)
> >
>
> There were also IBM Cluster adapter "side cars" for the PCjr. But my
> guess is that they are even harder to find than the XT (they were only 8
> bit cards) Cluster adapters.
>
> > Brian
> >
> >
> > SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com wrote:
> > In a message dated 12/30/2003 2:37:10 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> > nampcjr_at_yahoo.com writes:
> >
> > << Know someone working on a PCjr network, that is in dire need of some older
> > ISA-type (maybe the only type I guess) of IBM cluster adapters. Anyone have
> > any to give up or know where else to get them? >>
> >
> > That does not compute. The PCjr does not have ISA slots.
> >
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-- 
TTFN - Guy
Received on Tue Dec 30 2003 - 18:52:16 GMT

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