jr@oglvee.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) (08/09/88)
Western Digital makes an AT motherboard that looks pretty cute. It has everything you would need for a complete system right on the motherboard, including floppy/hard disk controller & EGA adaptor, and will take up to 4M without needing any memory cards. At Oglevee we make control systems for greenhouses. We have a VME-bus 68000 actually running the greenhouse tied to a PC/AT as our user-interface system. We're thinking very strongly about rolling our own clone for this. Having exactly one board to swap in case of trouble sure does sound attractive! (Well, not quite, the only thing we'd have to add to it is an internal modem.) Computer Shopper shows a couple of clone houses building systems around this board: Austin Computer Systems and Focus Technology. Anybody out there have any experience with this motherboard?? I'm particularly interested in any experiences anybody may have had running a multitasking operating system on the thing. Our systems run QNX and we don't have much use for DOS on these machines. We've just been through a very bad experience with a Wyse 286 acting flakier'n a box of Post Toasties with QNX. But even if you've just run DOS on the WD motherboard I'd be interested in hearing how it went. Anybody know where the bare motherboard is for sale? On my last pass through Computer Shopper I didn't notice anyone advertising just the motherboard. -- Jim Rosenberg pitt Oglevee Computer Systems >--!amanue!oglvee!jr 151 Oglevee Lane cgh Connellsville, PA 15425 #include <disclaimer.h>
cww@ndmath.UUCP (Clarence W. Wilkerson) (08/09/88)
In August 1988 issue.
mvolo@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Michael R. Volow) (08/10/88)
I would also be interested in seeing reports of experiences with clones using this motherboard, for MS-DOS applications. Michael R. Volow 919 286 0411, page beeper #550 Dept. of Psychiatry mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP Durham Vet Admin Medical Center Durham, N.C. 27705