Re: Mystery card!

[wsquires@lonestar.utsa.edu (William H. Squires)]

In article <1994Feb13.120234.9064@pro-newton.cts.com> danb@pro-newton.cts.com (Dan Brown) writes:
>In <14e_9402100838@mdtnbbs.uucp>
>colin.williamson@dino.UUCP (Colin Williamson) writes:
>
>>If you look on page 36 of the January-Febuary issue of II Alive, you'll
>>see a mystery card! What is this? Some people say it's an IBM disk
>>connector. I think it would be cool if it was a 486 on a card.
>
>        It's an IBM disk controller.  I think Brian Tao posted the release a
>while back, but I don't have it archived.  What the hell would we do with a
>486 on a card?
>

  Probably the same thing we'd do with Windows on a Mac! Seriously, folks.
I say Microsoft Windows for Mac in a computer store here in San Antonio, Tx.
I'm not sure what Microsoft had in mind when they made this bogey, but maybe
it's to keep ex-IBMers happy?
  As to a '486 on a card, you can do one of several things:

1) Run Windows 3.1 on your //GS and make your DOS friends envious (sort of).
2) Use it a a co-processor for the //GS (sort of like the FPE systems' 68882
Floating-Point card).
3) Disasseble it for parts, and sell the 80486 chip for $$$!

  Have fun with this one. If it is an IBM-style drive controller card, will
ProDOS-GS/OS try to format it as 720k, 1.44M, or 2.88M instead of 800k or
1.6M?

                                    wsquires@lonestar.utsa.edu
                                    William H Squires Jr.