Modular AX series tiny pc or thin client

Greetings,

I would appreciate any information on the 'Modular' brand
AX series tiny pc or thin client; photos of the insides
and outsides of an MC/AX-233-64 are here:

http://www.cybertheque.org/tmp/modular

This box is about six inches by nine inches by three inches
deep; the PC104 board has a P-233 CPU and 64MB ram, DEC
ethernet, parallel and two serial ports, kbd, mouse,
3com Bootware, floppy, 4-IDE and a few unknown interface
connectors.  There are a great many jumper blocks which
need to be documented.  I could not find any data on the
'Net or in my 4th QTR 1999 Microhouse databases.  The
board was made in 1998 and has no part number data other
than 'Secura REV:C' 'Made in Taiwan'.  I did not find any
references to a Taiwanese Mfg. called Secura in my limited
searching, and any pages for 'Modular' at 60 Codman Hill
Road in Boxborough, MA, using the domain name 'mod.com'
at the Wayback Machine have been blocked by a robots.txt
file on the current domain-name parker's website.

Tiny PCs like this one are invaluable in the lab for running
data acquisition, signal generation and experiment control
as well as older development kit software for mature parts,
so finding the jumper data is worth pursuing.

All help appreciated!

Michael

On 06/12/08 11:41 PM, msg wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I would appreciate any information on the 'Modular' brand
> AX series tiny pc or thin client; photos of the insides
> and outsides of an MC/AX-233-64 are here:
> 
> http://www.cybertheque.org/tmp/modular
> 
> This box is about six inches by nine inches by three inches
> deep; the PC104 board has a P-233 CPU and 64MB ram, DEC
> ethernet, parallel and two serial ports, kbd, mouse,
> 3com Bootware, floppy, 4-IDE and a few unknown interface
> connectors.  There are a great many jumper blocks which
> need to be documented.  I could not find any data on the
> 'Net or in my 4th QTR 1999 Microhouse databases.  The
> board was made in 1998 and has no part number data other
> than 'Secura REV:C' 'Made in Taiwan'.  I did not find any
> references to a Taiwanese Mfg. called Secura in my limited
> searching, and any pages for 'Modular' at 60 Codman Hill
> Road in Boxborough, MA, using the domain name 'mod.com'
> at the Wayback Machine have been blocked by a robots.txt
> file on the current domain-name parker's website.
> 
> Tiny PCs like this one are invaluable in the lab for running
> data acquisition, signal generation and experiment control
> as well as older development kit software for mature parts,
> so finding the jumper data is worth pursuing.
> 
> All help appreciated!
> 
> Michael

I have not come across this product myself, but it could be
a late version in the 'Secura' family of thin-pc:s or "Fit-pc"
announced by Ken Olsen's 'Advanced Modular Solutions Inc.' back in 1997.
(They closed down in 2000)

Oddly enough I found a similar query here:
http://www.controlled.com/pc104/messages20010315165953.html

regards
/Rolf

Rolf Blom wrote:

> On 06/12/08 11:41 PM, msg wrote:
> 
>>Greetings,
>>
>>I would appreciate any information on the 'Modular' brand
>>AX series tiny pc or thin client; photos of the insides
>>and outsides of an MC/AX-233-64 are here:
>>
>>http://www.cybertheque.org/tmp/modular

<snip>

> 
> I have not come across this product myself, but it could be
> a late version in the 'Secura' family of thin-pc:s or "Fit-pc"
> announced by Ken Olsen's 'Advanced Modular Solutions Inc.' back in 1997.
> (They closed down in 2000)
> 
> Oddly enough I found a similar query here:
> http://www.controlled.com/pc104/messages20010315165953.html
<snip>

Thanks Rolf; indeed the address on the eqpt label is for the former
'Advanced Modular Solutions Inc.', but I had not learned much about
the company including that Ken Olsen was involved ;)  Knowing that
this product was called 'Secura' helps in that I won't search for
an Asian product line of that name.

I had not discovered the query in the above link either; remarkably
similar ;)  Too bad the data is not yet published...

Regards,

Michael