Re: NEC 386

On 10/4/21 7:14 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 05:47:44 -0500, philo <[email protected]> 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.
> 
> 
> Ahhh  the memories  ..  :-)
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_1000#/media/File:Tandy_1000_rl_1.jpg
> 
> My first computer was the sleek little Tandy 1000 RSX   < AMD 386 >.
>    which cost me $ 700.  < on sale > included keyboard, mouse, and
> a 13 inch rgb monitor.  < ~  1 mb ram   60 mb HD ?  >
> I remember saving-up $  and  nervously installing the math
> co-processor  and  extra RAM.  < another ~  $ 200. >
> Tandy's  DeskMate  " op sys "  was interesting.
> I think it was  Win 3.1  otherwise.
>    John T.
> 



$700 was cheap even for what you got.