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

4 Aug 1999

My very first 'x86 machine was based on a board called a "Slicer" which
later was offered as a two-board system.  It had a 6 MHz '186 and enough of
those weird stackable memory sockets which allowed you to put two 16-pin RAM
packages in what was essentially a single 18-pin site, to accomodate
128K-bytes of the 64K DRAMS.  It provided a little serial I/O and little
else other than the FDC.  The add-on card, which was offered later, had a
SCSI port and some parallel I/O (?)  It's been a long time, but I think it
added another 128K bytes of RAM.

Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: John Honniball &lt;John.Honniball(a)uwe.ac.uk&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: 186 (was: CompuGraphics Question)

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On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 17:49:28 +1 Hans Franke
&lt;Hans.Franke(a)mch20.sbs.de&gt; wrote:
> > The machines I worked on were dual-floppy based, 1 Meg RAM, 80186 for the
...
   >
processor, ...
  186 ? Interesting ... it seams that there are way
more 186 beaste
 than I have asumed... This could be a collecting theme on their own. 
The first laptop PC that I ever used was a dual-floppy
system called the Tava Flyer.  It had an 80186 CPU, but I
can't remember how fast.

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John Honniball
Email: John.Honniball(a)uwe.ac.uk
University of the West of England