ID these boards?

[Chuck Guzis]

On 8/11/2006 at 2:25 PM Roy J. Tellason wrote:

>> http://www.frontiertech.com/aboutus/aboutus.asp
>
>A bit,  but not much.  They don't even say all that much about just what
>the darn thing does.

Well, since I was digging for the WDC LCD thingie, and didn't find it, I
should mention that I found a brief description of the Ad-Con boards.  Here
goes:

AdCom2-M

128K Bytes RAM 
2 serial ports
Data encryption
Synchronous mainframe link
Async, Bisync, HDLC, SDLC, X.25 terminal/protocol emulation
Introduced 1984, Cost $850

This, oddly, was not the high-end model.  The AdCom2-I had double the
memory, was introduced in 1985 and was priced at $1495.  Software was
included with each board.  There was also a plane-Jane AdCom2 with a
printer port, clock/calendar and 64K of RAM, no encryption, introduced in
1983 and listed at $275.

Given the correct spelling of the thing (or at least how the field knew
it), I find references in:

http://www.gwg.nga.mil/ntb/baseline/software/TACO2.html
http://www.mcamafia.de/mcapage0/mca.dat
http://sunsite.bilkent.edu.tr/pub/sun-info/sunspots/v10n96
http://www.textfiles.com/internet/vendors1.txt

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Chuck