[rescue] EISA dual pentium SBC - ESP3520

John Hudak jjhudak at gmail.com
Wed Jun 4 08:49:19 EDT 2025


Did you try the Tek forums?  It has been my experience that some very
knowledgeable ppl hang out in the oscilloscope group.

On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM Michael Dombrowski via rescue <
rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:

> I wouldn't normally ask x86-ish questions of this group, but this seems
> more interesting than the usual PC. I have a Diversified Technologies
> ESP3520 - a dual socket 5 SBC that slots into an EISA backplane. There is
> minimal info on the web about these, with some help I was able to find a
> copy of the manual and procure a backplane from eBay.
>
> These were used in Tektronix PDR 100s - a pretty wild appearing video
> recorder from the mid 90s. I think for things like instant replay of live
> sports. It looks like the video-related cards of the PDR had both EISA and
> dedicated video bus connections and it used FC connections to a disk array.
>
> The main problem that I am facing is a missing EISA configuration file. I
> hacked a different config file enough to be about to run the EISA config
> utility, but I'm still looking for the proper file directly, or a copy of
> the Tek software "Profile System" which should have a copy of the config
> file.
>
> Please let me know if you have any ideas or leads
>
> Mike
>
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