16 Dec
2009
16 Dec
'09
6:35 p.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Marvin Johnston wrote:
I was in a store that sold all sorts of old odd and ends the other day. They
had some modern-ish PCs for sale at the back, and all of the price tags said
"without mainframe". :-)
My theory is that someone used an access terminal once, and was told "that's
the mainframe" - and mistakenly thought that the terminal itself was called a
mainframe. Now to them "mainframe" means "computer display"... (the
price
stickers were all on the systems themselves, and they were all running Windows
so certainly didn't lack a motherboard, hard disk etc.)
cheers
Jules
From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
How many do you need/want, and what size :)?
I'm just trying to figure out what a "386 drive" actually is. My 386sx/16
laptop has an IDE HD in it. > Although the computer was originally a 286,
it stopped working at
> some point. I was in graduate school at the time, and spent $900 to
> get all my data back and installed on a new 386 drive. So it is now a
> 386.
Are 386 drives still available?