Least PC-Compatible MS-DOS machines?

There is very little that's typical about the FTS-88 IMHO. For one thing it has an optional GPIB por and an optional network port (their own standard) But the really odd thing is the video display. The video RAM does not appear in the memory map. To access it you use one of the channels of the DMA controller. To write data to video RAM you use the DMA chip to read the data from normal memory. This data is then written to locations in video memory by hardawre on the video board. Very odd. The normal ekybaord is bmassive with a large number of function keys. It's cotnroleld by a COP800 IRIC. WIth external ROM. I think this is the only time I've seen a 2758 EPROM (half a 2716, basically). The basic configuration has 3 main PCBS in the cardcage. The CPU board (which also cotnaisn the keyboard itnerfce, network interface, DMA controller, interrupt controller, RAM, ROM, etc), the video board, and the disk controller (which also carries the standard serial ports (7201 based IRIC), GPIB port, and 3 optional serial ports (8251 based). The drives were standard Mitsubishi units, standard Shugart interface. Perhaps I've bene lucky, but they don't seem to be particularly unreliable. The main problem with these machines seems to be the internal video monitor (whcih is spproximately MDA rates, an MDA monitor can be hooked up exernally). The oroginal monitors (there are various different manufacturers/models) all seem to eat flyback transformers. -tony