16 Dec
2009
16 Dec
'09
7:18 p.m.
From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
How many do you need/want, and what size :)?
> 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? 
16 Dec
16 Dec
7:41 p.m.
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Marvin Johnston wrote:
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.
Zane
> 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? 
8:08 p.m.
>>> > 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.
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I'm just trying to figure out what a "386
drive" actually is. My 386sx/16
laptop has an IDE HD in it.
Adding one to a 286 computer turns it into a 386.
Therefore, it must add at least 100 additional computrons.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
11:35 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?
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