Reply 29000 of 53050, by Caluser2000
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Her in doors is aware today so I entered her inner sanctum, the garage, where she carries out her wood working projects. Gave it a good tidy up. She isn't terribly organized so you can imagine the state it was in. Anyway after about 3 hours and a full rubbish bin I got finished. I know I'll get an ear full when she gets home.
To reward myself I had another rummage through my storage boxes. In the last box at the bottom of the stack was the Acorn A3000 I bought some time ago. Pleased as punch I am, the hard work was worth the effort. Another thing I found was an ISA Adaptic AHA-1520/22 scsi controller with support for scsi hdds and standard fdds. It originally had came out of my 386DX25 system. The 100meg Apple branded scsi hdd that was in it had died and I had no other scsi drives to replace it with at the time. I pulled the card and put it in storage. In it's place I installed a standard multi i/o with hdd support and a 4gig Bigfoot hdd using EZDrive DDO for drive translation. Over that time and now I had at some stage stripped an Intergraph Pentium Pro system running XP. It had two scsi hdds and scsi CDRom drive. The sizes of the hard rives are 2.1 and 9.1gig and the cable is about four foot long with external mini scsi conversion board and connector attached. I'll check the scsi card in a 486 system at some as I've never had to deal with it in the past. If my memory is correct it booted from its own bios.
Other items were a brand new Pine VLB multi i/o card, some serial mice and a 12 to 9-pin vga cable that use to be attached to the 14" 28 dot pitch vga monitor back in the early 90s which was connected to my old 286/16. That'll be used on the A3000.
There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉