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Yes, I recall the MCA, it was born a dead horse and never run a furlong. I recall all the companies who went through the lengthy MCA add-in card signup process
by aurizon 5y ago
Yes, I recall the MCA, it was born a dead horse and never run a furlong. I recall all the companies who went through the lengthy MCA add-in card signup process - that took a year or more to be granted, whereupon they fielded cards that never sold. I recall the surplus tables at the Dayton hamfest being piled high with MCA detritus - cards that were eventually scrapped for gold. IBM tried mightily to force this dead interface, few bought the idea and made boxes - few sold.
They were dead before they sold one.
The supposed superior MCA bus, was soon humbled by a string of faster and better busses.
There were a few old fogies who clung to big blue - I see them from time to time wandering in the wilderness...
- flyinghamster 5y agoI remember NCR making a few Micro Channel machines during its short not-quite-heyday. I always thought the idea of putting card configurations onto floppy disks was downright stupid. I wondered what the EISA crowd was thinking when they adopted that for EISA systems.
- aurizon 5y agoYes, Eisa, Vesa and MCA whose sun rose and set so rapidly. I had EISA and VESA bus boxes, but soon left them. I had 7 build your own box retail ops in the 80's, so it came in and went out, and as soon as it faded I stopped buying. Never bought MCA - terrible sticker shock, my student base would not go for it. I think that IBM ran with floppy config and EISA followed like a puppy dog and it died a quick death.