10 Oct
2006
10 Oct
'06
4:25 p.m.
On 10/10/2006 at 3:42 PM Chris M wrote:
Yes it did. So did the Mindset, Northstar Dimension
and Televideo Personal Mini (early file servers or
something), Burroughs ICON (also available from Xerox
IIRC), and maybe more.
Several more--one I was directly associated with was the Durango Systems
Poppy--186 with optional 286 on the mobo. (The socket for the 286 was
present on all models, but not always populated).
I'd have to look over the tech manual again, but
I
was of the persuasion the T2K though sported an 80186,
it ignored the integrated peripherals.
If so, that was almost criminal. The integrated 20 bit DMA in the 186 was
superior to the 8237+4 upper bits latch kludge in the original PeeCee.
And if you wanted something even more peecee comp-
atible then that, you copied actual peecee roms and
plugged them in. I remember one of Dvorak's columns
way back in PEECEE magazine complaining how the
Canadians did alot of this. LOL no offence to my
friends north of the border. I'm just telling you what
he said. O man is I in trouble...
My first XT-Taiwanese clone had the BASIC ROMs copied from my 5150. I
still have it. AFAIK, all of the no-name Far East clones all duitifully
had an extra EPROM socket or two, even if they were never sold with the
socket(s) populated.
Cheers,
Chuck