stephen@ziebmef.uucp (Stephen M. Dunn) (07/24/89)
In the manual for the IBM Token Ring adapter, there are a couple of refer- ences to a beastie called the IBM Industrial Computer. Just out of interest, has anyone ever heard of this? All I know about it is that this card (standard PC-bus) will work in it. E-mail to me if you've heard of it. If there's enough interest, I'll post a summary. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! Stephen M. Dunn stephen@ziebmef.UUCP ! DISCLAIMER: Who'd ever ! ! My puppy died late last fall ! claim such dumb ideas? ! ! He's still rotting in the hall (O.E.) ! I sure as heck wouldn't !
jcmorris@mbunix.mitre.org (Joseph C. Morris) (07/28/89)
In a recent article stephen@ziebmef.uucp (Stephen M. Dunn) writes: > > In the manual for the IBM Token Ring adapter, there are a couple of refer- >ences to a beastie called the IBM Industrial Computer. Just out of interest, >has anyone ever heard of this? All I know about it is that this card (standard >PC-bus) will work in it. > The box is effectively an AT in a 19" relay rack and a double-height chassis. Among other applications it's the platform for IBM's Ethernet/token ring/ whatever interface to the 370/43xx/308x/309x mainframes. In that guise it's called an IBM 8232 Lan Channel Station. The double height chassis is necessary for at least the mainframe channel cards. I don't know what other cards require the extra clearance. One thing IBM did right on the industrial-strength unit was to put a reset button on the panel. As far as I can see the box is logically identical to a standard AT. The Ethernet interface software installation requires that you first get a copy of normal PC-DOS; the applications program runs in that environment.