6 Mar
2005
6 Mar
'05
10 p.m.
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 04:19:42PM -0500, Scott Stevens wrote:
and all the details and stuff. The 6300 (I once owned
one) can be a
frustrating machine, because it is NOT a clone machine. You can't put
high density drives in it easily, for instance. It's big selling point
was being an 8086 machine in the era when everybody used 8088 machines.
I am intimately familiar with the 6300 because it was my first PC, and
my only PC for 5 years until I went to college. I upgraded the BIOS and
DMA controller so I could run a later version of Microsoft Word (the DOS
version, not the crap windows version), I cut a hole in the case to add a
3rd 720K floppy drive, bored out a hole to add a headphone jack, replaced
my 8086 with an NEC V30, added an 8087, and a hard-drive-on-a-card.
Short of replacing the video card (which was ironically much harder to
do properly than all of the other things I just mentioned), I tricked
that thing out years before adding blinkenlights to cases was cool.
I even found a lower DRAM refresh rate that didn't lock up the
machine so that I could get an additional 10% out of it.
Needless to say, if anyone has questions on an AT&T PC 6300 (or an
Olivetti M24, which is essentially the same thing), I'm your man.
--
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