lance@helios (Lance Bresee) (07/19/89)
Does anyone know of a company which produces IBM PCXT clone motherboards using the 80188 or 80186? How about any machine using the 80186? ALSO, you chip GURUs, does anyone know anything about an intel microcontroller, the 8049? I just got a whole bunch of them for free, and would like to program the little pups up and put them to work....will gladly trade several for spec sheets and documentation... or could you tell me which board would be most likely to get results on this question? Thanx muchly lance Lance%helios.ucsc.edu
werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner) (07/20/89)
In article <8408@saturn.ucsc.edu>, lance@helios (Lance Bresee) writes: > > Does anyone know of a company which produces IBM PCXT > clone motherboards using the 80188 or 80186? > How about any machine using the 80186? The Tandy 2000 was one of a very small number of machines that were made with the 80186 chip. It surely must have sold a few copies, but it really didn't last long on the commericial market (a year, tops...) -- Craig Werner (future MD/PhD, 4.5 years down, 2.5 to go) werner@aecom.YU.EDU -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1935-14E Eastchester Rd., Bronx NY 10461, 212-931-2517) "If I don't see you soon, I'll see you later."
al@escom.com (Al Donaldson) (07/22/89)
In article <8408@saturn.ucsc.edu>, lance@helios (Lance Bresee) writes: > How about any machine using the 80186? Back in 83 when I started at Verdix Corporation, they hired some small company down in Boca Raton, FL (no, some OTHER small company.. :-) to build some 80186 based prototype systems. As I remember, the VPC-186 (Verdix PC-186) had something like a 12 inch CRT, and the basic system was about 10" wide x 10" high x 24" deep, with a handle on top so you could carry it around. The design included a set of options modules that plugged in from the bottom, including battery packs, hard disks, etc. With a battery pack you could unplug the system from the AC outlet and it would continue to run. Pretty neat. But as I remember, the system weighed over 30 pounds, not counting battery and disk options, etc. Because of its weight, it became known to some of us engineers as "the Arnold Schwarzenegger" PC. Need I say, the thing never got off the ground. Last I knew, Verdix still had all ten of the boxes laying around collecting dust. Al Donaldson
rick@NRC.COM (Rick Wagner) (07/22/89)
In article <8408@saturn.ucsc.edu>, lance@helios (Lance Bresee) writes: > > Does anyone know of a company which produces IBM PCXT > clone motherboards using the 80188 or 80186? > How about any machine using the 80186? When I was at Lancore Technologies (now defunct), we had the "Core" series of file server based on an 8Mhz and later 10Mhz 80186. The company missed its calling by producing something based on the '186 when the AT was already out. The inability to run protected Netware was a constant sales killer. -- =============================================================================== Rick Wagner Network Research Corp. rick@nrc.com rick@nrcvax.UUCP 2380 North Rose Ave. (805) 485-2700 FAX: (805) 485-8204 Oxnard, CA 93030 Don't hate yourself in the morning, sleep 'till noon.
William.Cummins@bigtime.fidonet.org (William Cummins) (07/22/89)
The tandy 1200 ? I think was the most popular 80188 computer there were
others though the 8049 microcontrolers ie.8049AH have a 2K x 8ROM
memory in them and are not programable the 8749 have the Eprom and are
program able the program in the parts you have I think can be disabled
then you can use then with external memory WAC
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via Big Time Television (bigtime.fidonet.org, 1:152/201)apollo@bucsb.UUCP (07/22/89)
In article <8408@saturn.ucsc.edu> lance@helios.ucsc.edu (Lance Bresee) writes: > > >Does anyone know of a company which produces IBM PCXT >clone motherboards using the 80188 or 80186? >How about any machine using the 80186? Tandy/Radio Shack use to make a PC "semi"-compatible, the Tandy 2000, using the 80186 chip. I believe this was before IBM released their AT class machines. This machine didn't stay on the market for too long for obvious reasons that it wasn't based on any "standard" IBM products and I believe that there were quite a few software compatibility problems. I think you might be able to find a few used ones still around. A while back (~2 year) I saw a place in Computer Shopper selling off surplus Tandy 2000 motherboards for $75 each. >Thanx muchly >lance > >Lance%helios.ucsc.edu -Doug apollo@bucsb.bu.edu engm08c@buacca.bu.edu
leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) (07/23/89)
lance@helios (Lance Bresee) writes: >Does anyone know of a company which produces IBM PCXT >clone motherboards using the 80188 or 80186? >How about any machine using the 80186? To the best of my knowledge, the only "186 XT" machine ever made was the Tandy 2000. It was *DOS* compatible, but not *BIOS* compatible. There are a lot of them out there and a fair amount of user group support. I'm not sure that they used XT card slots, though... Ask for more info on comp.sys.tandy. -- Leonard Erickson ...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard CIS: [70465,203] "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." -- Solomon Short
ken@capone.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) (07/24/89)
In article <1578@bucket.UUCP> leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes: >lance@helios (Lance Bresee) writes: >>Does anyone know of a company which produces IBM PCXT >>clone motherboards using the 80188 or 80186? >>How about any machine using the 80186? > >To the best of my knowledge, the only "186 XT" machine ever made was the >Tandy 2000. It was *DOS* compatible, but not *BIOS* compatible. > WARNING: trivia alert... Paradyne Corp. produced an XT clone based on the '186 (or '188?), but I don't know if it ever made it outside of the company. The PDX, as it was called had 3270 emulation built in, I think (Tom, you can fill this in...;') ken seefried iii ...!{akgua, allegra, amd, harpo, hplabs, ken@gatech.edu masscomp, rlgvax, sb1, uf-cgrl, unmvax, ut-ngp, ut-sally}!gatech!ken
hashemi@leadsv.UUCP (Rahmat O. Hashemi) (07/24/89)
In article <1578@bucket.UUCP> leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes: >lance@helios (Lance Bresee) writes: >>Does anyone know of a company which produces IBM PCXT >>clone motherboards using the 80188 or 80186? >>How about any machine using the 80186? > >To the best of my knowledge, the only "186 XT" machine ever made was the >Tandy 2000. It was *DOS* compatible, but not *BIOS* compatible. I know Western Digital made 186 machine( I have a friend who worked on the project). Although they never really marketted the system(who knows why?). This was about 3 years ago, right about the time the 286 based AT's started being popular(I mean the clones off course). l i n e e a t e r
mdfreed@ziebmef.uucp (Mark Freedman) (07/30/89)
(80186 based PC clones ....)
I believe that AMPRO (the "Little Board" people) also had a 186-based
single-board computer with an expansion bus connector. Their market niche
was single-board computers small enough to mount on a 5 1/4" floppy drive.
I believe that they also made daughterboards for video and other options.
I don't have an ad handy, but I recall seeing recent ads (perhaps in Byte
or Computer Shopper) for the V40 and the new 80286-based system.
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