Re: NEC 386
Paul <[email protected]>
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On 10/4/2021 6:47 AM, philo wrote:
> I've been giving Win 11 a good testing and think I needed to get away from the 21st century so I pulled an NEC386 out of my attic. It's been up there 20 years and doggone it...Put it on my bench and it booted right up.
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> It has one of those box type cmos batteries that was not completely dead...2v and the clock had only lost 15 years :)
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> I actually had a spare battery for it, quite old but 3v. I think a new one would be 4.5v
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> Anyway it had Word Perfect on it and I finally figured out how to exit.  F7
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> It has 2 megs of RAM, a 16mhz cpu and a 40 meg MFM drive.
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> I sent a message to NEC and they actually replied withinthe hour. They were glad I liked the 386 and that the company is now only in Japan.
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I hope the disk drive made authentic sound effects.
You should bench it now with HDTune :-)
Paul