On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Hans Franke wrote:
The machines I
worked on were dual-floppy based, 1 Meg RAM, 80186 for the
processor, and run a specialized program for typesetting. AFAIK, they
cannot run anything else... but it might be a fun project to see if you
could get them to do other things. Hope you're good with x86 assembly (and
maybe disassembly) as I do believe a part of the OS they used was on ROM.
How much was ROM and what was booted from Floppy, I couldn't tell you...
186 ? Interesting ... it seams that there are way more 186 beaste
than I have asumed... This could be a collecting theme on their own.
Other 80186 computers include:
Mindset (1984)
Hmmm, I thought I had references to more in my notes. Guess not, but I
know there are at least a couple more notable ones.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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