🚀 go-pugleaf

On 2008-06-30, terryc <newssixspam-spam@woa.com.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:53:39 +0000, DoN. Nichols wrote:
>
>> On 2008-06-29, terryc <newssixspam-spam@woa.com.au> wrote:
>> 
>> 	[ ... ]
>> 
>>> My 2c is that if you are going to go out and spend $$$ to buy hardware,
>>> then buy X86 system hardware rather than sun stuff. Especially if you have
>>> some hardware skills and can buy  yumcha x86 stuff. The parts will always
>>> be reuseable in other systems.
>> 
>> 	Tell that to my collection of ISA cards which won't work in the
>> PCI slots of newer Intel boxen.  And what is the meaning of "yumcha"?
>> I've never encountered it before.  And for that matter -- what about the
>> ST-506 interface disks from the old PCs?  You have to find a controller
>> which will fit in a PCI slot and talk to the disk on anything made since
>> the IDE interface came into common use.  And good luck fining one of
>> *those* with a PCI connector. :-)
>
> Yawn, you left out your collection of S100 cards.

	That's because I don't *have* any.  Now I do have a few cards
for my Altair 680b, but while it uses the same 100-pin connector, the
offset is different, and the wiring is vastly different (and a lot more
logical than the S-100 is. :-)

	Enjoy,
		DoN.

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