Jerome_V_Vollborn@cup.portal.com (09/20/90)
I am currently specifying a system for displaying graphics and text derived from data on a tape. The chosen software is ISC 386ix with X and Motif widgets. The delivered system will be single purpose so no development tools are required. The tape has a SCSI interface and the display is required to be a 640x480 electroluminescent (16 "grey" shades). The current (strawman) configuration includes an Adaptec AHA 1542B floppy, hard disk and tape controller; a Maxtor 7040 (possibly 7080) hard disk; a Paradise 8514/A Plus card; a Western Digital 16C552 serial/parallel card; a Logitech Trackman serial track ball; a Fujitsu 1.44MB, 3.5 inch floppy; and a generic AT101 keyboard. We may use a passive backplane and a Integrated Solutions Corp. 386 card or an AMI mother board. In either case there will be 8Mbytes of memory. Any comments you have on the suitability of this configuration will be of interest. If you have had any experience with any of these cards that you are willing to share, I would be happy to hear them. As always, please email. If there is sufficient interest, I will summarize to the net. Thanks in advance. Jerome Vollborn (uunet!lci386!jerome or Jerome_V_Vollborn@cup.portal.com )