Date   : Mon, 03 Jan 2011 01:13:03 +0000
From   : philpem@... (Philip Pemberton)
Subject: Patching a CF card patched ADFS

On 02/01/11 21:58, Rick Murray wrote:
> I presume you mean the eight-slot quad-slice backplane? It might have
> been hairy, but - dammit - it was cool. If I had had the money back
> then, I would have got myself a Big RiscPC just because.

Even the two-slice quad-slot was shaky IME.

Getting a ViewFinder, a HCCS Vision, a UniPod and one other I/O card to 
play nice together involved a lot of slot-swapping and meddling with 
software. No IRQs or DMA channels to muck about with, but getting the 
timing issues sorted was "fun".

> Actually... if I had any brains at all I should have picked up my RiscPC
> from CJE and asked for three dummy slices. No reason, nothing to put in
> them, just... you know... a machine that big... "Epic" sitting next to a
> generic PC in a tower case... you wanna tower? Check out the size of MINE.

I'd have gone for the Rocketship. Eight slices (or was it ten?), plus 
custom machined steel locking pins...!
Built in pizza oven, sink (for washing all the crumbs off your fingers, 
of course!), loads of SCSI drives, a few daisy-chained 105W PSUs... Good 
fun :P

> * - of course a *Master* with all this stuff jacked into it, that's just
>       pure fetish fuel. ;-)

:P

And here I am with a stock M128 and Viglen dual 5.25in external drive 
box and a Cub653 (plastic case) monitor... well, I do have a box full of 
ROM cartridges :)

-- 
Phil.
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