Anyone own a MAD Computer system?

[Chuck Guzis]

On 6 Oct 2008 at 0:36, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:

>    Hmmm....  Bruce Irvine, same one who came out of CDC, worked at 
> Atari's HCD for a short stint, then was actually at Mindset briefly ???

That's the guy.  Another of the notorious SVLOPS CDC mafia.
 
> The box I'm referring to is their 80186 design in the black case with 
> the CPU in the lower pizza-box and then expansion module mounted ontop 
> of it.   Basically a near identical design to the Mindset insofar as 
> stacking modules and such.

The box I have is taller, but less wide than an XT in beige. Really 
cramped inside, but can hold 2 5.25" hh floppies and a FH 5.25" hard 
drive.  Beige with a 4-position keyswitch.  First position is off, 
second is on/run, third is on, keyboard locked, fourth is momentary 
contact reset.  Three LED indicators above that--a green one for 
power on, a yellow for keyboard locked and a red for HD access.  
Nothing mechanically standard as far as board mounting inside; I had 
to drill some holes to accept standoffs to mount an XT mobo. 

MAD got out of the box-making business and reorganized as an "AI 
technology" outfit with some name talent (I assume recruited with 
stock), then went down the chute not long after that.

Cheers,
Chuck