[permalink] [id link]
The Eurocard business was then sold on to one of its principal resellers, Control Universal Ltd, which continued to develop various cards for industrial use based on the Acorn-standard bus during the 1980s, but ultimately went into receivership in 1989.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
Eurocard and was
Such replacements of CPU and memory system components were possible because the Aster CT-80 was designed to use a backplane that was designed to support both 8 and 16 bit processors, and used a modular Eurocard based design with slots to spare for expansion.
The Eurocard mechanical architecture was defined originally under IEC-60297-3.
A computer architecture that used the 6U-220 Eurocard format was Multibus-II which was IEEE 1296.
Sven Rau and Max Loesel of Motorola-Europe added a mechanical specification to the system, basing it on the Eurocard standard that was then late in the standardization process.
The result was first known as VERSAbus-E but was later renamed to VMEbus, for VERSAmodule Eurocard bus ( although some refer to it as Versa Module Europa ).
The original standard was a 16-bit bus, designed to fit within the existing Eurocard DIN connectors.
In addition, the European Eurocard, issued as the competitor for American Express was, and in some countries ( such as the Nordic countries ) still is, a charge card.
It was mounted in an extra-height single 19 " frame, which could accommodate two vertically mounted 5 " floppy drives, with either seven or ten Eurocard slots.
Eurocard and sold
* For a short time in 1980, Philips sold a modular 2650 computer called the ' IMS ' - Industrial Microcomputer System, based on the Eurocard format in a 19 " rack.
Eurocard and on
It consisted of several Eurocard PCB's with DIN 41612 connectors, and a backplane all based on a 19-inch rack configuration.
Board on a Eurocard PCB.
It is physically based on Eurocard sizes, mechanicals and connectors ( DIN 41612 ), but uses its own signalling system, which Eurocard does not define.
Motorola's European Microsystems group in Munich, West Germany, proposed the development of a VERSAbus-like product line based on the Eurocard mechanical standard.
The Acorn Eurocard systems were a series of modular microcomputer systems based on rack-mounted Eurocards developed by Acorn Computers from 1979 to 1982, aimed primarily at industrial and laboratory use, but also home enthusiasts.
Eurocard and which
Eurocard is a European standard format for PCB cards, which can be plugged together into a standardized subrack.
A 3U subrack is high and accepts a 3U Eurocard which is high.
Because the Eurocard system provided for so many modular card sizes and because connector manufacturers have continued to create new connectors which are compatible with this system, it is a popular mechanical standard which is also used for innumerable " one-off " applications.
Carrier cards that accept PMCs are usually made in the Eurocard format, which includes single, double and triple-height VMEbus cards, CompactPCI ( cPCI ) cards and more recently, VPX cards.
In 2002, MasterCard International merged with Europay International SA, another large credit-card issuer association, which for many years issued cards under the name Eurocard.
Unlike the original Eurocard solutions such as VME, which use connectors with a 0. 1 inch ( 2. 54 mm ) pin spacing, CompactPCI cards use metric connectors with a 2-millimeter pin spacing, designed to the IEC 1076 standard.
VXI bus modules are typically 6U in height ( see Eurocard ) and C-size ( unlike VME bus modules which are more commonly B-size ).
These cards are larger than the VME Eurocard sizes which are 3U / 6U x 160mm.
The rack unit is also specified as the unit of height in the Eurocard standard, which also defines a similar unit, horizontal pitch ( HP ), used to measure the width of rack mounted equipment.
Eurocard and cards
individuals, providing them with innovative services ( at that time ) such as credit cards ( VISA, Eurocard / MasterCard, Diners Club ), cash payments for home utilities bills, etc.
Eurocard and for
The Eurocard standard is also the basis of the " Eurorack " format for modular electronic music synthesizers, popularized by Doepfer and other manufacturers.
This new revision refined the electrical specifications for the signal line drivers and receivers and brought the mechanical specification further in line with the developing IEC 297 standard ( the formal specification for Eurocard mechanical formats ).
* DIN 41612 connector – used for Eurocard buses.
Introduced in 1987, VXI uses all Eurocard form factors and adds trigger lines, a local bus, and other functions suited for measurement applications.
Introduced in 1987, VXI uses all Eurocard form factors and adds trigger lines, a local bus, and other functions suited for measurement applications.
* IEC 796-3: 1990 Microprocessor system BUS I, 8-bit and 16-bit data ( MULTIBUS I ) -- Part 3: Mechanical and pin descriptions for the Eurocard configuration with pin and socket ( indirect ) connectors
Eurocard and bus
Futurebus systems were implemented with 9Ux280 Eurocard mechanics using 96-pin DIN connectors resulting in a backplane that supported both 16 and 32 bit bus widths.
Eurocard and .
The Eurocard height starts at and increments by increments.
This arrangement allows two 3U high () Eurocards to be supported properly next to a 6U high () Eurocard.
The Eurocard is a mechanical system and does not define the specific connector to be used or the signals that are assigned to connector contacts.
The connector systems that are commonly used with Eurocard architectures include the original DIN 41612 connector that is also standardized as IEC 60603. 2.
Another popular computer architecture that utilizes the 6U-160 Eurocard is CompactPCI and CompactPCI Express.
Other computer architectures that utilize the Eurocard system are VXI, PXI, and PXI Express.
Its activities comprise mainly banking services, but SEB also carries out significant life insurance operations and also owns Eurocard.
business and was
The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.
But there was no definite agreement about business arrangements ''.
`` Mr. Miller was in the shop '', the Herald Tribune story related, `` but was reluctant to have anybody's picture taken inside, because his business was too ' confidential ' for pictures.
Her mother was a good manager and established a millinery business in Milwaukee.
Carl, who was stationed in Appleton, Wisconsin, organizing for the Social Democrats, was in Berger's office and made it his business to escort Paula to the streetcar.
He had worked in the newspaper business since he was nineteen years old, always for the Hearst service.
Boniface was later to explain to the English that Robert of Burgundy and Guy De St.-Pol were easy enough to do business with ; ;
Alfred, who was a good deal older than Harry, had treated him like a son, and when Harry decided to stay in business with Lew instead of going with Alfred, Alfred looked on the decision as a betrayal.
It was the use of the supernatural that kept them in business.
The Chancellor had as much business there as Ulbricht had in East Berlin -- and was certainly less provocative than the juvenile sound-truck taunts of Gerhard Eisler.
These arrangements would have been impossible if the business community was truly interested in the welfare of its employes.
I never could find out what his business was.
He was tired, he had his business worries, and the sight of his wife arranging pork chops in the broiler only seemed like an extension of a boring day.
There was no reference to the incident on the stairs, his powers being absorbed by this more immediate business.
What made these new location figures particularly impressive was the fact that although 1960 was a year of mild business recession throughout the nation, Rhode Island scored marked progress in new industry, new plants, and new jobs.
Between that year and the buying out of Mr. Darling's interest in 1892, a large portion of the company's precision tool business was carried out under the name of Darling, Brown & Sharpe, and to this day many old precision tools are in use still bearing that famous trademark.
In spite of the fact that our largest market, the textile industry, was affected substantially by the current decline in business activity, we have been able to produce and deliver our machines throughout the year 1960 at a rate materially higher than during 1959.
Like many others, he had to work hard, long hours in a struggling family business which, though it was allied to art of a kind -- the design and production of engraved seals -- bore no relation to the painting of pictures.
business organization -- the corporation -- was analyzed in contractual terms ; ;
The questionnaire was designed to elicit three types of information: ( 1 ) the facts regarding certain characteristics of the respondents, including their experience with, and interest in, securing defense business ; ;
It was nearly sundown before they finished the business with Beall and began riding down the stream.
0.172 seconds.