Older Intel CPUs (was Re: Central Point Option floppy controller) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

15 Sep 1999

On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 12:23:56 -0700 (PDT) Ethan Dicks
&lt;ethan_dicks(a)yahoo.com&gt; writes:
...
  I've seen 12 Mhz 286 motherboards w/memory for
sale at local shows 
 for under $10.   
That's about what they are here

*Finding* intact 286 systems is much harder.

I was given a Taiwan No-name 286 system last year.  I picked up
a PC's limited 286 box for *nothing*.

...
  Personally, I 
 stick with stuff that will run Linux as a baseline of new stuff to aquire for 
...
  day-to-day work (like the 486DLC w/16Mb I got for
under $20 that's now a webcam 
...
  running Linux from a floppy.  The only reason I paid
anything for it was for 
...
  the 4Mb parity 30-pin SIMMs and the ultra-tiny
form-factor motherboard - 1/2 
...
  Baby AT sized). 
I use my 286's to torture test MFM disk drives (among other things).
I also like toying with Xenix, when I've nothing better to do. 

...
  I tend toward XT-class and 386-class machines,
depending on the use. 
 I never really got into 286's. 
I'm thinking of building an XT, just so I can test my WD-1003-WX2's,
and -XT-GEN's.  Yeah I know, I know, they should work in an 'AT', but
'it aint natural'.

Jeff

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