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    Nope nope nope, you can't scrap that, nope. I know a few collectors who have one or two of those squirreled away, but they are very unusual. Did that card definitely come from a Leading Edge mobo?

    The Wildcard is pretty amazing -- it's essentially a miniaturized PC XT motherboard. The processor is an 80C88. They managed to put the logic of a PC onto a 2" x 4" card which goes into a slot like a SIMM. Intel developed it so that DOS and the functionality of a PC could be embedded in other devices, like industrial or medical equipment that otherwise would have a big clunky PC hooked up to it so that people could monitor and control it. I don't know if it ever made it into any of those commercial implementations, though. I know it was used in some science applications to enable the researchers to monitor the data their instruments were collecting. It's basically a very early version of the System on a Chip (SOC) -- they just couldn't miniaturize the circuitry down to a single chip yet, so they made a System on a Little Board. Your board is revision E, I think. Here's a photo of a revision B board:





    I'll have to do some research to find out more about the system that used this thing. I seem to remember something about a card like this being in a Daewoo laptop. I'm also not quite sure what that 40-pin DIP socket is for. I thought it was to accommodate an 8087 coprocessor, which was a 40-pin DIP, but on the rev. B board, the empty socket has only 28 pins...

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