MAD Computer

I once had one of these nasty little beasties. In fact, it was a rare version that was badged for TELEX/Memorex. It used an 80186 CPU-- It was fast, at least to me, anyway (although I don't recall the clock speed). The Powersupply and floppy drives were in one unit, and the CPU was in another. It had a CGA compatible display adaptor. It also had what appeared to be an ISA bus, but most stock PeeCee cards would cause problems. I hacked this one by adding an 8-bit Hard disk controller, and disabling the HDC bios ROM. There was support for the HDC in the MAD-186 ROM, but the harddisk was not a standard option (AFAIK). I think this is the only computer I ever destroyed on purpose, and out of spite, no less. When we bought our 1st '286, my wife urged me to give the MAD to her brother. I really should have resisted, because the thing became a support nightmare. "Can I put a joystick on this?" "Uhh, whats an 'ERROR TRAP'?" "Uhh, RatRacer keeps locking up, can you fix this?" The computer got passed around the family, and I finally ended up with it about three years ago, when it was summarily smashed into little pieces-- retribution for countless sleepless nights when I had to play 'Tech Support'. I had been driven to the edge of MADness. Needless to say I wasn't into CLASSICS yet. I DID save the part with the PS and flopy disk drives, though . . . Jeff At 11:29 PM 7/14/98 -0500, you wrote: