An Intel Branded EISA-Based 486 Desktop Computer? (Part 1) | #DOSCember

Did you know that Intel used to make computers in addition to their famous series of processors? Many of those system were for industry or niche usage, but they also had a small selection of workstation computers just like this. The name is right in the title “Intel Professional Workstation“. Well, this system is unusual for a lot of reasons because it’s the first EISA based system. EISA was a competitor to IBM’s Micro-channel Architecture and was created by the Gang of Nine as a response to IBM patenting the MCA. Intended as a replacement for the original ISA bus, EISA mostly existed as a stopgap until PCI would entirely replace it. This system is unusual for the era with it’s integrated SCSI and Ethernet adapters, and no onboard IDE. The condition on getting this system was to dump the hard drive which is of course stymied by the fact that this is (unsurprisingly) a SCSI HDD. My ultimate goal is to restore this system as much as possible, dump it’s hard drive, explore