PC Ephemera

[Chuck Guzis]

On 10/26/2005 at 9:06 PM Joe R. wrote:

>   Well besides being HUGE and the fact that it didn't support all of the
>cards, it costs $2585! (with a hard drive)  That's almost three times what
>I paid for my first XT clone!   FWIW I've only seen one of the things.
They
>must not have sold many of them.

I used one for a time.  62 conductor thick round cable connected the two.
I recently scrapped the PC-side board of one--lots of LS374's IIRC.  I
recall that IBM swore that the added delay was negligible, but I kept
running into the of "You're not running our card in the expansion unit, are
you? " problem.  The cable wasn't long enough that you could do much else
than stack the two units on a normal sized desktop.  And then, the
resulting pile was too high to set a monitor on.  Two PSU fans didn't make
for a quiet workplace either.

I remember buying a Taiwanese mobo, case and a Sony monitor to replace the
PC 2-box setup at one of the De Anza college swap meets.  The monitor cost
more than the PC.  I think I tried using the expansion unit with the 8 Mhz
clone and had no luck at all.

Cheers,
Chuck