Anyone see the "extender" board for the UNIX pc?

John B. Milton jbm at uncle.UUCP
Wed Aug 9 15:34:48 AEST 1989


In article <896 at ecijmm.UUCP> jmm at ecijmm.UUCP (John Macdonald) writes:
>In article <170 at alps.UUCP> lenny at alps.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
>|1.	With power off, remove the Floppy Tape Controller board and
>|	insert an _extender board_ in its place.

Yes, this did/does exist. The problem, word has it, is that most of the boards,
memory in particular stop working at the end of a LONG UNIXpc extender card. I
recently shelled out bucks to get an Expansion box, just for hardware testing.
With the cover off, it's easy to get at all the signals. The down side is that
memory cards are not supported in the Exapnsion box. The UNIXpc bus spec leads
one to believe that the memory specific lines are not even run out there :(

John
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