4 May
2004
4 May
'04
1:05 a.m.
At 11:09 PM 5/3/04 -0500, you wrote:
8088
machine. Orange plasma display, small lunchbox configuration, etc. I
just went back to the sales-photos for it and indeed it was badged a III.
It had the standard 640K of RAM and no expansion slots. Did they possibly
make this machine with different processor configurations? Is it possible
yours has a 3rd party processor upgrade? I definitely didn't have to run a
Setup program to get it going and it had sat idle for a long time before I
powered it up, so I'm fairly certain the one I had didn't have a setup
battery or CMOS setup storage.
That is odd! I've had about 8 or 10 of the P-IIIs and they were all
286/386 type machines. They definitely used CMOs setups and batteries and
the batteries were always running down and losing the settings.
Joe
On Mon, 3 May 2004 19:00:01 -0500 (CDT)
Dave Dunfield <dave04a(a)dunfield.com> wrote:
> > I think the first one was the Portable (8088 w/ 256k, then the Portable
> >II (smaller but still 8088 and 640K) then the Portable 286 (286 CPU and
> >640k(?)), then the Portable III (the small lunchbox sized computer (I
don't
> >remember if theese were 286s or 386SXs)) and
then the Portable 386 (it had
> >a full fledged 386DX). FWIW I have a P-II sitting about five feet from
me.
>
> FWIW, the Portable III is a 286 machine. I have pictures of mine posted on
> my site if anyone wants to see one.
>
> If anyone has the original setup disk for the Portable III, I would love to
> get an image of it - the "generic" AT setup disks work in that you can
configure
> the drives and get it to boot, however Compaq
apparently "rolled their own"
> checksum algorithm, as once configured with any of the generic disks, it
gets
a
CMOS Checksum
error.
I'm pretty sure the Compaq Portable III that I sold in February was an