3 May
2004
3 May
'04
1:15 p.m.
Compaq released a replacement address decoder chip that would allow
replacing two rows of 64K chips with 256K chips to go to 640K. They're
unobtanium now, of course, so you have to waste a slot on a memory card.
Paul Pennington
Augusta, Georgia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe R." <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: Fwd: compaq's portable computer
You forgot to attach her message and/or address.
AFIK there were no options for the original Portable. I've had several
and read the manuals and I don't remember hearing of any options. But it's
been a long time and I could be wrong. I think somewhere I still have an
original brochure and some manuals but don't ask me to find them. I can't
find half the stuff that I thought I knew where it was.
IIRC they were 256k, 8088 CPU and dual DS disk drives and that was it.
The Portable II was 40% smaller and lighter and had 640k of RAM. I think
a
hard drive was available in the P-II but I don't
know if that was from the
factory or a third party job.
Joe
At 09:45 AM 5/3/04 -0400, you wrote:
as
If anyone could help this woman out with the
question of memory options
for an original Compaq Portable, please do respond
directly back to her, well as to the list. Thanks, David