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 CANNON SCANNER INTERFACE BOARD

     We have customer reports of compatibility between this scanner board
     and current Above Boards as well as the Matched Memory classic. We also
     have reports that the discontinued Above Board 286 and PS/286 work fine
     with this scanner board.

     Tech Note: If there appears to be a memory address problem, have the
     customer try a different I/O port address. The only conflicts we've
     seen with this board have come from I/O port address conflicts.

 COPYII PC DELUXE BY CENTRAL POINT

     *CUSTOMER REPORTS* of compatibility with Above Boards and Matched
     Memory Classic.

     Tech Notes: Default I/O port address for the CopyII PC Deluxe board
     conflicts with Above Boards.  Jumpers for Deluxe:

     J6 has two jumpers:       LEFT   RIGHT  I/O ADDRESS
                               ----   -----  -----------
                               UP     UP     268h-26Fh  default
                               DOWN   DOWN   3E8h-3EFh
                               UP     DOWN   368h-36Fh
                               DOWN   UP     2E8h-2EFh

     J7 controls DMA port:     UP   = channel 1  default
                               DOWN = channel 3

 CORDATA LASER PRINTER INTERFACE BOARD

     We have customer reports of compatibility between the Cordata Laser
     Printer board and current Above Boards, (as well as the Matched Memory
     Classic), under the following conditions:

         If the customer wants only extended memory, conventional memory, or
         a combination of the two there will be no conflicts whatsoever.

         If the customer wants expanded memory in an 80286-based computer,
         there won't be enough room in reserved memory for the EMS driver,
         the Cordata ROM, and an EGA or VGA ROM. IF the customer is using a
         true Monochrome board (not Monochrome VGA) or CGA board there will
         be no problems. The combination of an EGA or VGA board and the
         Cordata board use all available memory locations and an EMS driver
         will not have room to load if they are present. Cordata Memory
         Address starts at D0000 and ends at DFFFF, this address cannot be
         changed.

     Cordata confirmed this information.  Their number in the United States
     is ph: (805) 499-0536

 EXPANZ!

     Disk compression product, a half-length AT-bus board that contains an
     ASYC with a disk compression algorithm.  The algorithm works like
     PKZip; however, it appears to be a more efficient algorithm.

     This product uses a 16K reserved page frame.  The board can be set to
     the following addresses:

         CC00 (default)  DC00       EC00
         C800            D800       E800
         C000            D400       E400
                         D000       E000

     If the customer is on a system that permits access to the E000 range
     (XTs), set the "Expanz!" board to a 16K boundary in this range.  If the
     user is on a system that does not decode E000 (ATs), then EMM will
     require a page frame parameter.

 HPIB INTERFACE - HEWLETT PACKARD

     We have customer reports of compatibility between the HPIB Interface
     card and current Above Boards as well as with the Matched Memory
     Classic.

     The HPIB interface board uses more than 16K of memory address space in
     the range CC000 through DC000. If setting up the Intel memory board to
     provide expanded memory, set the HPIB switches for starting address
     DC000, and the expanded memory manager to start at CC000.

 ALL-CHARGE BOARD

     *FIELD REPORTS* of compatibility with with current Above Boards, also
     with the discontinued AB 286 and AB PS/286.

 AWESOME I/O

     *FIELD REPORTS* of compatibility with Above Boards, although there
     could be an issue if trying to get the Above Board to supply expanded
     memory in a system with this card.

     The Awesome I/O is a 1mg static ram cache memory board.  It uses 64k of
     reserved memory from  D0000-DFFFFh. In an 80286-based computer there
     won't be enough reserved memory address space to provide expanded
     memory if there is an  EGA/VGA adapter also installed, (or some other
     adapter requiring reserved memory, such as a network card).

 ATRON HARDWARE DEBUGGING BOARD

     *FIELD REPORTS* of compatibility with Above Boards, although there
     could be an issue if trying to set up the Above Board to provide
     expanded memory in a system with this card.

     The Atron Hardware Debugging Board uses reserved Memory Addresses: Hex
     C0000 through E0000 or 80000 through A0000. If the Atron board is using
     Hex C0000 through E0000 there won't be enough reserved memory address
     space for the Above Board's Expanded Memory Manager to load.  The Atron
     card would need to be set to use the 80000 starting address to be used
     with expanded memory, but this  address would limit the computer's
     conventional memory to 512k.

 DIO MULTI I/O BOARD

     *FIELD REPORTS* of compatibility with Above Boards.

     This Multi I/O board has 1 parallel and 1 serial port with an option to
     add a second serial port.

     Switches configure the ports.  Factory setting is:

        existing serial port = com1
        optional second serial port = com2.

     Must disable the second serial port on the I/O board if setting an
     Above Board port as com2, (on Above Boards that are shipped with serial
     and parallel ports).

 DSI - 20 COPROCESSOR BOARD

     *CUSTOMER REPORT* of compatibility with current Above Boards and
     Matched Memory Classic.  This is a 68020 coprocessor board for the AT.
     (16-bit board)

     Tech Note:  Memory address: D0000 (cannot be changed)

 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS SECURITY BOARD

     *FIELD REPORTS* of compatibility with Above Boards.

     The FMS board uses a small amount of reserved memory, default starting
     address is D800.  This can be changed with switches on their board.

     Financial Management Systems phone ph: (206) 646-8686.

 GAME PORT/JOYSTICK CONTROLLER & AB PLUS

     *FIELD REPORTS* of compatibility with a wide range of Game
     Port/Joystick controller cards.

     Tech Note:A game port may fail with an AB+ set to I/O address 208.
     Change the I/O address to any other value. 208 will not conflict on an
     AB286 or earlier AB's.

 HP SCANJET DESKTOP SCANNER

     The interface board for HP's scanner will allow the choice of two I/O
     ports and one of eight 16Kb pages.  This flexibility should allow it to
     work with ABs and many other devices.

     There are four switches on the HP board; settings are shown below.  An
     asterisk (*) indicates factory default settings.  'x' means DON'T CARE.

     Note: The switch settings chart in the manual is confusing gets
     interpreted backwards. The chart below represents the physical setting
     of each DIP switch on the HP Scanjet board.

           sw1    sw2    sw3    sw4
          * up     x      x      x       I/O Port 278-27Fh
            dn     x      x      x       I/O Port 268-26Fh

            x      up     up     up      C000 Page Frame Used
          * x      dn     up     up      C400   "    "    "
            x      up     dn     up      C800   "    "    "
            x      dn     dn     up      CC00   "    "    "
            x      up     up     dn      D000   "    "    "
            x      dn     up     dn      D400   "    "    "
            x      up     dn     dn      D800   "    "    "
            x      dn     dn     dn      DC00   "    "    "

     NOTE:  If the user has LPT2: enabled, there will be a conflict with the
     default I/O address.  If it is moved to 268h it will conflict with the
     default setting of the Above Board, so it may be necessary to remove
     the Scanner interface long enough to run SETBOARD.  The default page
     frame should not cause a conflict with the Above Board default EMM, but
     may conflict with other boards in their system.



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