At 02:05 PM 11/12/98 -0800, you wrote:
At 05:23 PM 11/12/98, you wrote:
There was also a Portable III. I have five of
them!! They're a little
larger than a lunch box and have a 12 MHz 286 CPU and a fold out gas plasma
screen. They have a place for a MODEM on an ISA card in the bottom of the
case. And a place for a memory expansion card that held up to six SIMMs.
The SIMMS that were available were 256K or 1 meg so you could have up to 6
Megs & 640K of memory. There was an option to add a box on the back that
contained an 8 bit and a 16 bit ISA slots. Mine have the box with the ISA
card slots and I use them for portable instrument controllers.
Did they market a Portable III to 386 upgrade kit? I've got a Portable III
with a 386-20 (well, now a 486slc-40) in it, but it still has the III on
the case and the XT-style keyboard.
I'm not aware of a 386 or 486 upgrade kit, but They use a weird board in
them so if your's has a 386 then it almost certainly had to have come from
Compaq. BTW the PIII came with two different styles of keyboards.
Joe