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From: mbl900@anusf.anu.edu.au (Mathew BM LIM)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Help needed identifying a board.
Date: 26 Jul 1993 00:43:57 GMT
Organization: Australian National University
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Message-ID: <22v9cd$d3e@manuel.anu.edu.au>
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What am I :
1) I came off the AT bus in an old Sun386i.
2) I am a full length AT style board.
3) I look something like this :
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| |
| +------+ +------------+ |
| | LEDS | | 8 Position | +-------------+ +------------+ |
| +------+ | DIP switch | | Chip A | | Chip A | |
| +------------+ +-------------+ +------------+ |
| +-------------+ +------------+ |---+
| | Chip A | | Chip A | | |
| +-------------+ +------------+ | C |
| +--------------+ | o |
| | Chip B | | n |
| +--------------+ | n |
| +--------------+ | e |
| | Chip C | | c |
| +--------------+ | t |
| +------------+ | o |
| | | | r |
| | Chip D | | |
| | | | A | | | | |---+
| +------------+ Jumpers |
| ++++ + ++ |
| ++++ + ++ |
+---------------------------------+ +--+ +--
| | | |
+--------+ +--------------------+
Inscriptions on various chips, etc :
Chip A: Z8530H-6PC
953D9VA
(C) 1986 AMD
Chip B: (written on a sticker over the chip)
AURORA
VER. 3.14
IC5
Chip C: (written on a sticker over the chip)
AURORA
VER. 3.14
IC4
Chip D: AMD
N80186-10
945D3JX
(M) (C) INTEL 1978
Connector A:
Is a 64 pin D shell female.
There is break out cable which came with the board and
apparently connects to Connector A. It looks like this :
+---------------------------------+
| +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ |
| | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | |
|\ | | | | | | | | | |
| | | +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ |
| | | |
| |---------------------- |
| | | |
| | | +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ |
|/ | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | |
| +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ |
+---------------------------------+
^^
64pin male D connector ^^^^^^^^^^^ Solid plastic "block" with
8 x 25 pin female D connectors.
The plastic "block" has the word "COMPUTONE" written on it.
The thing looks very much like some sort of multi-port communications
device to me. Does anyone know for sure what it is and, more importantly,
how I can make it work on a 386 PC running 386BSD?
--
Mathew Lim, Unix Systems Programmer, ANU Supercomputer Facility,
Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia 0200.
Telephone : +61 6 249 2750 |
Fax : +61 6 247 3425 | E-Mail : M.Lim@anu.edu.au