GRiD/M100/Shuttles

At 12:42 PM 1/14/98 -0600, you wrote: It appears to be the GRiD, as seen in pictures here: http://www.pd.com/GRiD.html Yeah, he's more of a GRiDPAD freak, I'm into the older 80's model laptops. Speaking of which, I just received my GRiD 1535 EXP. It's real nice, even had a docking tray that can fit one 8-bit ISA and one 16-bit ISA card in. 1535exp Magnesium Alloy casing just like any other true GRiD 386-??, 387 mathco 8mb RAM 42mb HD (3.5" IDE, internal) 2 ROM sockets up front, like the older GRiDCASE machines CGA display (I think the backlight is out, if it had one. Kinda hard to adjust the contrast just right, but since I know squat about backlights, I'll leave it alone for now.) Suprised it came with CGA. I'd have thought it would at least have mono VGA, but I think that was the 1537 and above. It'll make a nice little text based linux box when I get everything hooked up. (I'll have to run a serial connection to transfer files since there's no floppy to speak of. The floppy plugs into a standard db25 connector, with one pin on the end filled in wth a plastic stopper. Anyone got a floppy??? Anyone know if a different model external floppy would work?) Looks like a real mess up north. Here in NC, the people panic when we get 4" of snow. (But let's not talk about snow, it may be taken as offtopic by the fine upstanding members of this list.) :) - John Higginbotham - limbo.netpath.net