5 Feb
2013
5 Feb
'13
7:03 p.m.
interesting if you live on the west coast
somewhat less so when you live in New Jersey.
especially when you have no knowledge of its innards. the seller speaks of the possibility
of it having a rare IBM processor. some people consider the 486 rare
5 Feb
5 Feb
7:25 p.m.
yup. that's what I'm thinking. I've sent seller a note asking for more
info and his minimum cost... I'm curious about the unit and close
enough to risk at least a little on it...(SFBay area). Intriguing that
there's literally nothing on that model to be found - was hoping the
well of knowledge here would recognize it in some fashion!
steve
On 2/5/2013 4:03 PM, Chris Tofu wrote:
interesting if you live on the west coast
somewhat less so when you live in New Jersey.
especially when you have no knowledge of its innards. the seller speaks of the
possibility of it having a rare IBM processor. some people consider the 486 rare
8 p.m.
On 02/05/2013 04:25 PM, steve shumaker wrote:
yup. that's what I'm thinking. I've sent
seller a note asking for more
info and his minimum cost... I'm curious about the unit and close
enough to risk at least a little on it...(SFBay area). Intriguing that
there's literally nothing on that model to be found - was hoping the
well of knowledge here would recognize it in some fashion!
It's hard to tell, but this box looks as if it's post-1987. Probably
one of Honeywell's later products (after the Groupe Bull spinoff).
Honeywell has used 68K and PPC CPUs in many of its products.
--Chuck
6 Feb
6 Feb
10:24 a.m.
On 02/05/2013 07:03 PM, Chris Tofu wrote:
interesting if you live on the west coast
somewhat less so when you live in New Jersey.
especially when you have no knowledge of its innards. the seller speaks of the
possibility of it having a rare IBM processor. some people consider the 486 rare
I find that last statement funny.
I have a small format (for 1990) 386sx/25 board I keep for emergencies.
I have a SIIG box with a 386/16 for a router.
I have two Dell 486sx (486dx/66 without external cache) pizza boxes
and a coffee can of 286/386/486 chips I think I haven't tossed yet.
The 486 PCs and the 386 board are saved as I need them to use for
ISA-8 and ISA-16 board hosts. Other wise I consider them junk
and they will be tossed as junk if and when they die.
Allison
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