Re: NEC 386
philo <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.hardware |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 10/4/21 6:18 AM, Paul wrote: > 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. >> >> It has one of those box type cmos batteries that was not completely >> dead...2v and the clock had only lost 15 years :) >> >> I actually had a spare battery for it, quite old but 3v. I think a new >> one would be 4.5v >> >> Anyway it had Word Perfect on it and I finally figured out how to >> exit.  F7 >> >> >> It has 2 megs of RAM, a 16mhz cpu and a 40 meg MFM drive. >> >> >> 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. >> > > I hope the disk drive made authentic sound effects. > > You should bench it now with HDTune :-) > >   Paul I'm going to set it aside now. I know from experience an MFM drive can 100% quit with no warning whatsoever. I have a 286 with two, 20 meg MFM's that I have not fired up in years.