6 Sep
2007
6 Sep
'07
1:49 a.m.
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 14:31, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 5 Sep 2007 at 11:17, Chris M wrote:
I'm vaguely remembering an Epson machine -- Equity III? Something like that,
I found out it had an 8086 in there when I went to stick a v20 in it, one
client had a bunch of machines and had me do that to a number of them for
him...
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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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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
NEC APC, APC III off the top of my head.
There's
others: <snip>
I meant systems that would load and run PC-DOS right out of the box,
i.e. "PC compatible" systems. The Grid would fall under that
heading, but not many of the others--and certainly not the NEC APC.
The 8086 was attractive for the Grid because it came in a low-power
CMOS version--the 80c88 came along a bit later.