• interesting MCA item

    From Alexandros@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 26 08:33:29 2023
  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Alexandros on Wed Jul 26 06:35:19 2023
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/266347713485

    Power Tip: If you cut n paste to the end of the item number, it looks
    much neater.

    First look, 16-bit card. The slight blurring makes it so much more interesting...

    DB-78 [?] or some humongo connector, no cable, one receiver card [must
    be in expansion chassis.

    Alexandros wrote:


    https://www.ebay.com/itm/266347713485?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=7-EtAvQOT56&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=LFC-JFTBRDe&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY


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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Wed Jul 26 06:49:12 2023
    PC-Slave card was used with the PC version, the "PC-XBUS" external
    chassis was used by both ISA systems and MCA systems. The XBUS looks to
    be ISA.

    PC-LAN was an alternative to a real LAN. When LANs dropped in price, the
    need for the XBUS withered away.

    Louis Ohland wrote:
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/266347713485

    Power Tip: If you cut n paste to the end of the item number, it looks
    much neater.

    First look, 16-bit card. The slight blurring makes it so much more interesting...

    DB-78 [?] or some humongo connector, no cable, one receiver card [must
    be in expansion chassis.

    Alexandros wrote:


    https://www.ebay.com/itm/266347713485?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=7-EtAvQOT56&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=LFC-JFTBRDe&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY



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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Wed Jul 26 06:58:48 2023
    No holy joy yet.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20010301193043/http://www.alloy.com.au/

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    Louis Ohland wrote:
    PC-Slave card was used with the PC version, the "PC-XBUS" external
    chassis was used by both ISA systems and MCA systems. The XBUS looks to
    be ISA.

    PC-LAN was an alternative to a real LAN. When LANs dropped in price, the
    need for the XBUS withered away.

    Louis Ohland wrote:
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/266347713485

    Power Tip: If you cut n paste to the end of the item number, it looks
    much neater.

    First look, 16-bit card. The slight blurring makes it so much more
    interesting...

    DB-78 [?] or some humongo connector, no cable, one receiver card [must
    be in expansion chassis.

    Alexandros wrote:


    https://www.ebay.com/itm/266347713485?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=7-EtAvQOT56&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=LFC-JFTBRDe&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY



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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 26 07:50:26 2023
    My SWAG, the PC-SLAVE intelligent card is housed in the PC-XBUS chassis
    and communicates over RS-232. Sordid like the GUEST card in a MCA
    system, except this resembles a buncha SBC on a backplane.

    Dunno if the MCA card HI/2 has any CPU, looks more like it is a
    conversion betwixt the MCA bus to the ISA bus.

    https://archive.org/details/pdf24_images_merged-6/page/n28/mode/1up

    A recent implementation of the star topology is the Alloy PC- Slave,
    which uses a separate interface card (installed in the file server) for
    each workstation. This interface card is almost a personal computer in
    itself, with its own CPU and memory, but the disk and printer resource
    are shared with the file server. Because the interface cards are
    intelligent, all workstation processing takes place on the slave card,
    leaving the file server's own processor free to handle other jobs. Data transfers are very fast, since the interface card shares the same data
    bus as the file server and the data does not have to be transmitted
    across a cabling system. Since the network interface has its own
    processing power, a dumb terminal may be used as the workstation.

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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Alexandros on Wed Jul 26 08:00:49 2023
    That ad was replicated in one form or another for years.

    Alexandros wrote:

    More info @ https://books.google.com/books/about/InfoWorld.html?id=lS8EAAAAMBAJ

    Louis Ohland <[email protected]> wrote:
    My SWAG, the PC-SLAVE intelligent card is housed in the PC-XBUS chassis
    and communicates over RS-232. Sordid like the GUEST card in a MCA
    system, except this resembles a buncha SBC on a backplane.

    Dunno if the MCA card HI/2 has any CPU, looks more like it is a
    conversion betwixt the MCA bus to the ISA bus.

    https://archive.org/details/pdf24_images_merged-6/page/n28/mode/1up

    A recent implementation of the star topology is the Alloy PC- Slave,
    which uses a separate interface card (installed in the file server) for
    each workstation. This interface card is almost a personal computer in
    itself, with its own CPU and memory, but the disk and printer resource
    are shared with the file server. Because the interface cards are
    intelligent, all workstation processing takes place on the slave card,
    leaving the file server's own processor free to handle other jobs. Data
    transfers are very fast, since the interface card shares the same data
    bus as the file server and the data does not have to be transmitted
    across a cabling system. Since the network interface has its own
    processing power, a dumb terminal may be used as the workstation.





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  • From Alexandros@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Wed Jul 26 12:52:04 2023
    More info @
    https://books.google.com/books/about/InfoWorld.html?id=lS8EAAAAMBAJ

    Louis Ohland <[email protected]> wrote:
    My SWAG, the PC-SLAVE intelligent card is housed in the PC-XBUS chassis
    and communicates over RS-232. Sordid like the GUEST card in a MCA
    system, except this resembles a buncha SBC on a backplane.

    Dunno if the MCA card HI/2 has any CPU, looks more like it is a
    conversion betwixt the MCA bus to the ISA bus.

    https://archive.org/details/pdf24_images_merged-6/page/n28/mode/1up

    A recent implementation of the star topology is the Alloy PC- Slave,
    which uses a separate interface card (installed in the file server) for
    each workstation. This interface card is almost a personal computer in itself, with its own CPU and memory, but the disk and printer resource
    are shared with the file server. Because the interface cards are
    intelligent, all workstation processing takes place on the slave card, leaving the file server's own processor free to handle other jobs. Data transfers are very fast, since the interface card shares the same data
    bus as the file server and the data does not have to be transmitted
    across a cabling system. Since the network interface has its own
    processing power, a dumb terminal may be used as the workstation.


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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Wed Jul 26 09:04:30 2023
    https://books.google.com/books?id=ObYblXvjuhUC&pg=PA315&lpg=PA315&dq=%22alloy+computer+products%22+%22pc+plus%22&source=bl&ots=auly_vAUK9&sig=ACfU3U2Vk98eRp7OgDIBDHuPsk_2gWSVdg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjquOiWxKyAAxVOHTQIHfaQDWc4FBDoAXoECAMQAw#v=onepage&q=%
    22alloy%20computer%20products%22%20%22pc%20plus%22&f=false

    Louis Ohland wrote:
    PC-Slave card was used with the PC version, the "PC-XBUS" external
    chassis was used by both ISA systems and MCA systems. The XBUS looks to
    be ISA.

    PC-LAN was an alternative to a real LAN. When LANs dropped in price, the
    need for the XBUS withered away.

    Louis Ohland wrote:
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/266347713485

    Power Tip: If you cut n paste to the end of the item number, it looks
    much neater.

    First look, 16-bit card. The slight blurring makes it so much more
    interesting...

    DB-78 [?] or some humongo connector, no cable, one receiver card [must
    be in expansion chassis.

    Alexandros wrote:


    https://www.ebay.com/itm/266347713485?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=7-EtAvQOT56&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=LFC-JFTBRDe&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY



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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Wed Jul 26 09:15:09 2023
    https://books.google.com/books?id=JMGL4vXOn1cC&pg=PA326&lpg=PA326&dq=%22clustered+cpu+systems%22+1987&source=bl&ots=tGnWi5rYXr&sig=ACfU3U1siE256RyzPfrkylYiXEF7vXObfQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjYka6Bx6yAAxWLIDQIHYfAApoQ6AF6BAgoEAM#v=onepage&q=%22clustered%
    20cpu%20systems%22%201987&f=false

    Louis Ohland wrote:
    PC-Slave card was used with the PC version, the "PC-XBUS" external
    chassis was used by both ISA systems and MCA systems. The XBUS looks to
    be ISA.

    PC-LAN was an alternative to a real LAN. When LANs dropped in price, the
    need for the XBUS withered away.

    Louis Ohland wrote:
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/266347713485

    Power Tip: If you cut n paste to the end of the item number, it looks
    much neater.

    First look, 16-bit card. The slight blurring makes it so much more
    interesting...

    DB-78 [?] or some humongo connector, no cable, one receiver card [must
    be in expansion chassis.

    Alexandros wrote:


    https://www.ebay.com/itm/266347713485?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=7-EtAvQOT56&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=LFC-JFTBRDe&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY



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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Wed Jul 26 08:19:09 2023
    https://archive.org/details/msj-v-4n-01/page/42/mode/1up

    Looks to be the ISA version, but it's a decent explanation...

    Louis Ohland wrote:
    PC-Slave card was used with the PC version, the "PC-XBUS" external
    chassis was used by both ISA systems and MCA systems. The XBUS looks to
    be ISA.

    PC-LAN was an alternative to a real LAN. When LANs dropped in price, the
    need for the XBUS withered away.

    Louis Ohland wrote:
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/266347713485

    Power Tip: If you cut n paste to the end of the item number, it looks
    much neater.

    First look, 16-bit card. The slight blurring makes it so much more
    interesting...

    DB-78 [?] or some humongo connector, no cable, one receiver card [must
    be in expansion chassis.

    Alexandros wrote:


    https://www.ebay.com/itm/266347713485?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=7-EtAvQOT56&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=LFC-JFTBRDe&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY



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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 26 09:29:19 2023
    https://archive.org/details/PC-Mag-1987-06-09/page/n314/mode/1up?q=clustered

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