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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:28:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org>
To: "Heusden, Folkert van" <f.v.heusden@ftr.nl>
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Subject: Re: mysterious card
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Heusden, Folkert van wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have this mysterious 8 bit ISA card with nothing more then 2 smb-mounted
> ic's
> and a button. It seems to be something that should force a system memory
> dump.
> I think I can handle the code-writing, but since there's no documentation I
> have
> to find out how things are working.
> Ok, the question is: does anyone know a place on the web where I can find
> specifications of ISA-slots? I need to know what is supposed to be connected
> to
> the pins (1, 2, 6, etc.)

It is supposed to do that!

That sounds like the card that came with an old DOS debugger.

The old 8088 PCs did not have a reset switch. This was so you could do
hardware breaks when the whole system was locked up.

I have one of those lying around somewhere...

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