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From: gbs@stratus.UUCP (George B. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: 32K "do-it-yourself" kits...
Keywords: The Ultimate Scrooge...
Message-ID: <1056@stratus.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 88 06:23:59 GMT
References: <2613@sultra.UUCP> <7532@nsc.nsc.com> <2621@sultra.UUCP>
Reply-To: gbs@stratus.UUCP (George B. Smith)
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc. Western Development Center
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In article <2621@sultra.UUCP> dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan) writes:
>I thought the 532DK was just a designer kit (all five chips + TDS proms).  If
>you want to actually do something with it, you've got to spend months, nay, 
>years, wirewrapping :-)...  What exactly IS the 532DK?

While there has not been any actual 532DK's shipped yet, the configuration
as of last month was a 532 on a small board with 128k static RAM, one serial
port, one parallel port set up as a centronics printer port, and TDS and
mon532 in EPROM plus some documentation.  Oh, don't let me forget to mention
the wire wrap area for all that "hard work" that George Grenley is going
to do. :-)

>Another (hairbrained) idea would be to produce a '332 (or even '532) mother-
>board for the IBM-PC.  I mean, you can pick up individual clone parts (PSU,
>case etc) real cheap these days.  So, you have a motherboard which has up to
>8Mb of SIMMS, and a lookalike PC-AT bus, so you can put off the shelf AT-type
>plug-ins into the box.

Gee, the cg16 group is not going to like you calling there new
baby hairbrained. :-)

>dtynan@Tynan.COM  (Dermot Tynan @ Tynan Computers)

George B. Smith			disclaimer: the cat is almost out of the bag
Stratus Computer, Inc
gbs@stratus