13 Mar
2011
13 Mar
'11
2:26 p.m.
On Sunday 13 March 2011 03:52:22 pm Dave McGuire wrote:
I think I have something like 20M in it now, I'll get it up to 64M eventually. :-)
Sick-o. ;)
I have a pile of 72-pin parts around here someplace waiting for me to test them, anyhow,
at least find out what sizes they are...
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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M Dakin
On 3/11/11 11:39 PM, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
Not this one. Compared to the other 486 boxes in the pile up in the attic this one's
built like a tank. :-)
Oh wow, seriously? Whose BIOS does it use?
Good question. I haven't fired it up in ages...
I had at one point intended to use that box to run OS/2. In recent conversation it came
back to me why I still might want to, after thinking that I didn't have any
particular reason to. Basically that it'd get me the ability to run some DOS-type
apps (machine control stuff mostly) and be networked at the same time. I sure don't
care too much for some of the other choices when it comes to networking early stuff like
that, and running linux on everything else here has me kinda spoiled. :-)
(snip)
OTOH, I have a 486 ISA peecee that _does_ say
"digital" on the front
of it. I didn't know they were into this stuff, too...
Yep, I've worked with those. Bog-standard cheap PCs. Darn thing
only seems to want parity RAM, too.
That figures.