#A4000 slot starvation
13-Dec-93 23:06:54
Sb: #70244-#A4000 slot starvation
Fm: Bruce Robertson 73322,254
To: JERRY HATCHETT 76460,266
For those expansion cards that are just looking for a warm home and free
utilities (power), you might want to consider a simple PC case with power
supply and mother board. The mother board can be passive (no electronics to
speak of) or some old 8088 board. Most TBCs, vectorscope/waveform cards, and
D/A and sync generator (ie Toast Timer) cards are only there for those basics.
First, though, you need to be sure of any need for a control link to those
cards. I recall that the DPS line of products use the serial port, so that
should be able to run over to your "slave" chassis.
Bruce