3 Aug
2012
3 Aug
'12
10:07 a.m.
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Liam Proven wrote:
On 30 July 2012 00:58, Fred Cisin <cisin at
xenosoft.com> wrote:
Some old Compaqs are still being used as small servers, too. I currently
have three Socket-7 based Compaq Deskpro 2000 and Deskpro 4000 systems
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Liam Proven wrote:
I'll take your word - Compaqs were so *very* expensive that we mainly
ran them as servers in those days. The only 3.31 I met was Compaq DOS 3.31, which as
you say removed the
32MB disk partition restriction. It ran on anything, of course.
Except that it's MODE.COM (.EXE? (gotta check a copy sometime, and see
what the first two bytes are!)) contained [EGA,CGA] options that are
inapplicable for video boards other than the Compaq ones (that had an
internal and an external video). Certainly wouldn't hurt to run it on
other machines. from ~1997-1998 still running today. Those machines
replaced some earlier
486 based Deskpros, which had in-turn replaced some 386-based
Deskpros. I
really wouldn't mind adding another 3 to 5 DP4000 or DP2000 systems to the
group, either, if I could find them. So far the only machines I've seen on
the surplus market have been from scrappers who think they can sell them
for USD $100-300 each plus another $50+ for shipping (which is obviously
/never/ going to happen given the cost of newer low-end PCs today).