Re: ISA Vector card already done...

On Thu, 26 Mar 1998 09:48:11 -0800 (PST), aek (Al Kossow) wrote:

>"Of course, lower inductance + high =
>voltages =3D
>higher currents =3D higher fire hazard."
>
>well, if the bozos would have designed proper current limiting
>and fault protection in the output stage... that's what the kludge
>towers on the board are for, they patched in foldback current limiting
>with those little paddle boards stuck into the molex connectors.

My understanding was the software/hardware dweebs that designed the CPU card was
also at fault. It took them forever to initialize the X/Y position of the
G-80's trace that it spent way too long in a tweaked (trace completely to one
side) on power up. This is the worst state an X/Y monitor can be in. I read
somewhere on the net that later version of software helped (probably moved X/Y
initialization to *before* the power on test), but there were still problems.
I've verified none of this.

-Zonn

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Received on Thu Mar 26 10:25:33 1998