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From: jcmorris@mbunix.mitre.org (Joseph C. Morris)
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Subject: Re: IBM Industrial Computer
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Date: 27 Jul 89 21:13:40 GMT
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In a recent article stephen@ziebmef.uucp (Stephen M. Dunn) writes:
>
>   In the manual for the IBM Token Ring adapter, there are a couple of refer-
>ences to a beastie called the IBM Industrial Computer.  Just out of interest,
>has anyone ever heard of this?  All I know about it is that this card (standard
>PC-bus) will work in it.
>
The box is effectively an AT in a 19" relay rack and a double-height chassis.
Among other applications it's the platform for IBM's Ethernet/token ring/
whatever interface to the 370/43xx/308x/309x mainframes.  In that guise it's
called an IBM 8232 Lan Channel Station.

The double height chassis is necessary for at least the mainframe channel
cards.  I don't know what other cards require the extra clearance.

One thing IBM did right on the industrial-strength unit was to put a reset
button on the panel.  

As far as I can see the box is logically identical to a standard AT.  The
Ethernet interface software installation requires that you first get a copy
of normal PC-DOS; the applications program runs in that environment.