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 4:02 PM, [email protected] wrote: > On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 14:22:17 -0500, philo <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. >> > > I forget the exact year, but 486's were coming on - becoming > almost affordable & getting cheaper by-the-month it seemed - > and I was intent on staying well under $ 1. grand. > John T. > Still recall my (now) wife getting a P-1 back in 1995 The machine with monitor, printer and software such as MS Word was $1600 > I thought she was nuts for spending that much money. When she got a new machine in 1999 she gave it to me and I splurged and spent $100 for a year of dial-up!