board found

I looked in a box here that I hadn't looked into in a
while,  and found this 
board...

It's _not_ ISA, PCI, or any of those formats.  Says on the
top "Panther EDAC 
Memory Board".  There's also what appears to be an
NCR copyright on it, 1993.

There are a half dozen big chips across the bottom where the
edge connectors 
are,  5 of them marked VLSI and one NCR with a 1990
copyright date on it,  
and eight SIMM (?) sockets,  but these are not your standard
ones -- if I 
take a 72-pin SIMM and line it up with the notch with one of
the occupied 
sockets on the board,  I have 3-4 pins left over (on the
part on the board) 
at each end.  Four of the sockets are occupied.  The two in
the middle that 
aren't are labeled "Bank-1/3 Byte-2" and
"Bank-1/3 Byte-1",  I can't see the 
markings for the other ones and don't want to pop these
SIMMs out at the 
moment.

Near the center of the board are four other sockets,  with a
chip in one of 
them,  looks almost like a SIP but the pins are in two rows,
 real close 
together,  coming out of the same side of the package (what
do you call 
this?) and the part in the one socket that's occupied is
marked "Toshiba" and 
"TC5117400Z-60".

There are also 3 barcoded stickers one of which bears the
date "Oct 31 1994" 
in the middle of two barcodes.

This *may* belong with that NCR tower that went out of here
a while back, I 
don't know for sure.

Anybody know what it is?

Anybody maybe have a use for it?

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On 8/30/2006 at 5:14 PM Roy J. Tellason wrote:

>It's _not_ ISA, PCI, or any of those formats.  Says on
the top "Panther
>EDAC Memory Board".  There's also what appears to
be an NCR copyright on
it,
>1993.

Roy, according to my literature collection for that period,
the NCR 3360
was known as "Panther".  I believe it ran dual
Pentium 60/75 or some such.
EDAC of course, is "Error Detection and
Correction".  So it sounds like
what you've got is a memory board for an NCR 3360 Panther
server.

Does this make sense to you?

Cheers,
Chuck

On Wednesday 30 August 2006 06:21 pm, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 8/30/2006 at 5:14 PM Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> >It's _not_ ISA, PCI, or any of those formats. 
Says on the top "Panther
> >EDAC Memory Board".  There's also what
appears to be an NCR copyright on
> > it,1993.
>
> Roy, according to my literature collection for that
period, the NCR 3360
> was known as "Panther".  I believe it ran
dual Pentium 60/75 or some such.
> EDAC of course, is "Error Detection and
Correction".  So it sounds like
> what you've got is a memory board for an NCR 3360
Panther server.
>
> Does this make sense to you?

Yup.  I had an NCR box here that got let go some time back
to a list member 
(who I went to CC that post to but the email address I had
bounced).  I 
couldn't tell you at this point what the model was,  but it
was apparently a 
dual P90,  perhaps upgraded from a dual P60 that was in it
earler on?

Anyhow,  I have this board here and no particular use for
it...

-- 
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting
-- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space,  a critter
that can
be killed but can't be tamed.  --Robert A. Heinlein,
"The Puppet Masters"
-
Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled
by lies. --James 
M Dakin