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On Sun, 09 Jul 95, Philip Stokes wrote:

> 
>                         MICROBOTICS MBX 1230XA
>                         ======================
> 
> The Microbotics/Paravision MBX 1230XA is available in 33, 40 and 50MHz
> versions. I did not get any responses from owners of the 33 or 40MHz
> boards and so cannot say much about these. The 50MHz board has a full
> 030 and a single standard SIMM socket capable of accepting up to 128MB
> of Ram. It has a real time clock and a socket for an FPU. There is
> apparently no expansion connector on this board (for SCSI or similar).
> The memory does not conflict with the PCMCIA port. Although the memory
> autoconfigs under Workbench 3.1, it has to be configured by software
> under Workbench 3.0 or below. This is achieved by adding a small program
> to the WBStartup drawer.
> 


There is a problem using a Squirrel interface with the Microbotics
board - the squirrel will lock up the machine if you use AutoXA to
configure the ram. This is a major piss-off, since it then chucks the
system into chip ram, instead of fast.

Gwynne.


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