186 (was: CompuGraphics Question) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

5 Aug 1999

You wouldn't want to guess what I found in the basement behind the washing
machine, yesterday, would you?

I think a few of the screws are missing, along with the power supply (which
was a BOSCHERT switcher) which is what I was scanvenging when I last looked
at the thing.

If you want it, I can arrange to send it to you.  (the 3COM server with the
'186 running it, I mean.)

regards,

Dick

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey L Kaneko &lt;jeff.kaneko(a)juno.com&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: 186 (was: CompuGraphics Question)

...
 On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 17:49:28 +1 "Hans Franke"
&lt;Hans.Franke(a)mch20.sbs.de&gt;
writes:
  186 ? Interesting ... it seams that there are way
more 186 beaste
 than I have asumed... This could be a collecting theme on their own. 
You bet!  There are at least two more '186 machines nobody mentioned.
ANyone remember the MAD 186?  It was kinda like a mindset, but the
innards were different.  TELEX also marketed a rebadged version of the
MAD computer-- the TELEX 1186.  I used to have one of these (I think
I still have the PSU/FDD unit around here someplace).

Two more rarely seen machines are the 3Com 3Server, and 3Server3's.
They both used 80186 CPU's (some guy at 3Com explained that they
used it because the chips built-in dual DMAC's gave good disk I/O
performance).

Anyways, these beasts used a highly customized version of MS-dos,
which ran 3Com's LAN software.  They were strictly servers-- these
things had no on-board video; you had to use a terminal to see what was
going on, if it refused to boot (which was often).  It was a seriously
cool
box in 1986.  I still have the software for it around here someplace . .
.

I'm sorry I scrapped mine in 1993.

Jeff

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 H.

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