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McDATA MC400
Today I acquired an old 386 machine (bloody enormous!) that is some sort of controller ... but I don't know what for.
It is made by McDATA (McDATA 400 model 01R) and distributed by Memorex/Telex (Memorex 2374-1R) who apparently supplied it to BC Systems Corporation who sold it to ... and so on and so on
Anyway ... it has been in a forrestry office up until now.
All adaptor / expansion boards are verticle and are 14"high x 12"deep and slot into connector slots (pinned like an IDE or SCSI slot - only much larger) on the planar board
it has one board that has some Silcom 500 series chip/device in it and the outside port for that thing is a 9 pin (5 over 4) female connector (size of monitor cable connector end approx.) that says T R GATE above the port and RING I/F beside the port. There are also 2 expansion bays on that card that say ME2 and ME1.
The card with the Processor has a port with 25 pins (opposite to a parallel port) with PROC-3 written above it and MAINT PORT written vertically beside it. that card also has the same 2 expansion bays named ME2 and ME1
it has two cards with a combined 34 coax connectors.
18 coax ADP (0,1,2, ... ,15,16,24)
16 coax EXT (16,17,18, ... 29,30,31)
it is
27" high
14" wide
21 " deep
It does not have a hard drive in it.
2 x 3.5" floppy drives in the front
an unused bay that appears to be for a SCSI drive (50 pin)
4 x 40 pin (IDE cable fits) connectors at the rear of the planar board that are only accessible through a removable panel.
2 buttons on the front and an LED (I think) display
1 power
1 IML
Maybe, with one of you smart fellows out there, i can put it to work as something other than a 150 pound paperweight
Last edited by bungee; 03-16-2003 at 05:51 AM.
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