INTEL ABOVE BOARD PLUS 8
FYI. I've had a great day! I installed my new Intel Above Board Plus 8
(populated with 2 megs) with I/O card on my XT Bridgeboard and it works
perfectly. I configured it to replace a 640K memory expansion card by
adding 128K to ram, thus eliminating one card. I also created a 768K ram
disk (It acts just like the Amiga side ram disk; good for diskcopying those
720K disks). Buying the ram expansion with an I/O board attached also
allowed me to remove my older I/O board. As a result, the extra ram,
expanded memory and I/O card are "all in one." I used pctools and another
diagnostic program (Helix's Discovery) to see if all was well. Both
programs showed the additional memory and the I/O ports. Unfortunately,
the Plus 8 does not come with a game port. By the way, Helix's Doubledisk
also works with the XT Bridgecard. It is terribly slow on the XT, but it
does allow a 50% increase in hard disk space. In my case, using 10meg of
my 32meg hardcard I was able to store 16megs of programs. It didn't really
double the 10 megs of allotted space but it did increase it by over 50
percent.
Odell Lee
Paris, France