3 May
1998
3 May
'98
10:04 p.m.
On Sun, 3 May 1998, Don Maslin wrote:
Sam, even with the IBM emulator board they are only
marginally PC
compatible. Without, they run Wang programs only. I have a fairly full
set of disks for the machine. Of course, you may have some/much of it on
the hard disk.
I've got the basic system files, including BASIC and some diagnostic
utilities.
I'm sorry that I didn't respond to Larry when
he posted his query, but I
misread it that he was talking about one of the PC look-a-like
(compatible?) series that came along in the mid/late '80s.
One of the disks I got is labeled "IBM Emulation". I don't know when
I'll
get a chance to play with it but I'll take your word for it that it isn't
very "compatible". It is a very interesting machine. For one thing, it
is huge, being at least twice the size of a standard PC. The motherboard
is about 3 square feet (~24" x 18")! It has 512K on the motherboard and a
256K expansion card. The expansion cards are large as well, being about
12" x 8".
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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