----- Original Message ----- From: "jim stephens via cctalk" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> To: <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Monday, May 29, 2017 12:06 PM Subject: Re: What is this bus?
> > > On 5/29/2017 8:38 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: >> >> On 5/28/17 8:28 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: >> >>> The Pascal Microengine had a black and brushed aluminum package >> There was a bus version. I have cards, but no backplane. > I saw a lot of WD PME scrap here, even engineering stuff. The staff > shared a building with a friend, and some stuff I had came down the hall > from there to scrap dealers. > > I don't recall seeing anything that fit with what the guy had in the > photos here with the open frame supply. Could be for the PME, but would > maybe be a refugee prototype or such. > > The offices which had some of the development was in Sky Park Circle in > Irvine, colocated with Technology Marketing, Inc. > > Some financial people who had dealings with Microdata's founding owned > the building that had both TMI and the WD offices located there. > > Albert Wong (IIRC) of the A in AST worked at TMI with a friend till the > ramp up of AST drew him in. > > Thanks > Jim -------------------- FWIW, the power supply looks too professional/commercial to be part of a prototype; it looks like it's meant to slide into its chassis/cabinet, with a handhold to allow pulling it out and a spring-loaded latch to lock it into place. But it's also quite possible that the PS and the backplane don't even belong together.
