Re: NEC 386
philo <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.hardware |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On 10/5/21 11:48 AM, Bill Bradshaw wrote: > philo wrote: >> On 10/4/21 11:57 AM, Richard wrote: >>> philo <[email protected]> wrote on Mon, 4 Oct 2021: >>> >>>> 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. >>> >>> Damn, where is my Intel 8088 MS-DOS system with 640 KB RAM, Hercules >>> screen and two floppy drives and without modem and hard drive? >>> >>> Richard >>> >> >> >> I am having fun diffing through my attic. >> >> I do have an IBM 8088 up there. >> >> Right now I'm working on a ps-1 486 >> >> Damn cmos battery kept the right date! >> >> >> It had 2 megs of RAM that I now took up to 64 megs >> >> Label on the case says expandable to 64 megs and Pentium technology. >> >> 486 is soldered in, upgrading to Pentium a bit difficult. > > Somewhere I have stored a Tandy 1200A with 10 Meg harddrive. My next > computer was a 486 25Mhz Dx with a 100 Meg harddrive. I remember trying to > figure out how I would ever use 100 Megs of storage space. When you figure > in inflation these computers would probably cost at least $6,000 to $8,000 > in todays money. I believe the first IBM PC was about $3,100 in 1981 which > would probably be about $12,000 in todays money. > Yep. I recall replacing the 850 meg HD in my Packard Bell P-1...with a 2Gb drive. Not kidding, I broke out into a cold sweat handling something that big. First time I booted up, I felt I was in in HUGE stadium with more room than I'd ever need. Just pulled a 386 out of the attic that was 100% dead, When I opened the case, first thing I noticed was the CPU was missing...or so I thought for about two seconds. It was the socket for the math co-processor. Since I have another 386, I'm going to toss the mobo on this. I have at least one of each: 8088 286 386 486 (three) P-1 AMD-550 (two) I think my favorite is 486 IBM PS-2 I recall how excited I was when I finally obtained an MCA net card.