[rescue] SparcPlug Docco?

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Al Potter <apotter at spankingnuns.com> wrote:
> lionel4287 at yahoo.com said:
> >> Because this makes a Sparc out of a PC, my Karma should now be at
> >> least neutral....
> 
> > Al, this would turn a drive enclosure into a SPARC - I think
> > everyone here would agree that a PC is <> SCSI drive enclosure. ;^)
> 
> <QUIBBLE>
> 
> It is set up to go into a PC or Server cabinet.  The plug itself is
> 5.25 FH, 
> and wants an ATX (I think, not positive hence the need for dox) PS 
> connector; a PS came with mine.  The IO board is set up like a PC
> expansion 
> card, but with no traces linking the card to the bus.  All the IO
> goes out 
> the ass end of the card.
> 
> </QUIBBLE>

I thought they just connected up with a "drive" power connector,
everything else was run through SCSI, Ethernet and sound & Serial as
the outputs..
 
> This one was less than $100, with a Ross HS proc (speed TBD), 128 MB
> of ram, a 2g HD, the ribbon cables and IO card.
> 
> I call that affordable...

Were I to see that same deal, I would have jumped on it to, just for
the novelty of it!

Great catch!


=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976

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