Other MicroChannel Resources

• Peter Wendt's MCA Enthusiasts' pages
  Too much good stuff to mention. Any ADF you'll ever need - is probably there. He's also created the QBMCA tool which can give you the adapter id for cards reported as 'unrecognized' by the RefDisk utilities.

• Louis Ohland's page
  Now apparently Louis is focusing more on RS/6000s now, but his page still links to several mirror sites which maintain the wealth of MCA stuff he had acquired under one roof - the 9595 Ardent Tool of Capitalism. This is still a most excellent place to start. Has lots of detailed information, including planar diagrams, explanations of IML, IBM SCSI, and too many other things to count. Trying to figure out what J2 does on the WierdOddCard/A? Go there. One of the mirrors I've used a bit recently is Wild Bill's mirror

• And hey, Wild Bill himself has a pretty nifty site: WCT Computers Collection. If you curious about the Model 25 PS/2s, or are searching for info on any of the elusive IBM EduQuest machines Wild Bill is your guy.

• Tim Clarke's The IBM PS/2 and PC Server Compendium. Reason #3246 why it's good to be a PS/2er: lots of excellent web resources.

• Canada MCA Network
  Pretty cool website which is also very 8570-centric. The author has sucessfuly run Win95 on a 16Mhz 8570 - not for the timid. William Walsh also hosts a Canada MCA Network mirror.

• Alfred Arnold also has a computer collection that includes 8570 machines - as well as many others. He has much better photographs of 8570s, a drive riser modification for putting the B: drive bay to more fruitful use with a hard disk (really not for the timid), and has pages devoted to not only the 20Mhz 8570 but also the 25Mhz 386 and 486. All this and many other machines too. . .

• Fred Spencer's very cool 8580 site.

• Dennis Smith also has collected a bunch of information together and probably has one of the most massive MCA links lists I've seen. If you're hungry for even more places to go to learn about MCA, he might well have your smorgasbord.

• MCA Linux home page
  Not my choice for an OS, but that might well not be your case. . .

• Don't want to run Linux? How about NetBSD on a PS/2? Apparently 8555, 8570 & 9595 have successfully run NetBSD.

• This probably should be essential reading if you're new to PS/2s - the PS/2 FAQ.

• How could I forget the comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware newsgroup?

  Last but hardly least:

• The International Alliance for Compatible Technology
  I'm a big believer in every machine with a TCP/IP address is created equal. PC-DOS, OS/2, Windows, Apple, DEC VAX, *ix, BeOS, CP/M. . .your chosen platform should work best for you and you shouldn't be hindered by 'standards' that really aren't 'standard' at all. Unfortunately, we've also had some domain-name-issues recently. . . to link or not to link, that is the question. . .

• The Viewable with Any Browser Campaign
  I've tried to apply the spirit of this campaign to my website. Why? visit this and the preceeding link.

• Simply, the neatest piece of software I've seen in a long, long, time. The Arachne Web Browser will make you wonder why in the hell IE and Netscape are so big and if they're really worth it all. (see also my new 6581 page).