On 5 Apr 98 at 11:17, Allison J Parent wrote:
<up comes an Intel flashscreen
< Inboard 386 PC
< Vers 1.1 02/17/89
< Intel Corporation
Same beast I have in my Leading Edge XT.
It has a socket for a coprocesser did you try that upgrade ? They're pretty
cheap now.
<recognize Very rudimentary Auto and Config usual
but with inbrdpc.sys
< Of course I quickly pop it open No HD !!??
Don't lose those files!
Yeah, I pulled every thing that looked like a file belonging to the H-C and
the intel and backed up on disk.
<Snooper tells me it has 2 ser ports and 2 paral.
configured and bench-mar
<20mhz ( don't know how accurate Snoop's bench is but this sure beats an X
It's warped. It's a 386/16 and that's all.
Suspected as much I imagine Snoop gives just a general idea of it.
< I was blown away I didn't think an XT much
less a PC could be upgraded
<without replacing the MB. And the Hard Card was gravy
That's been going on for a while and there was a AT (286) version as well.
< The possibilities are interesting. I'm wondering if I could beef up the
<Put in an Extended Graphics Adapter (not Array) and hook up my 3270
<type IBM monitor (5272). There's an interesting section in Que's
"Upgradi
IF it's ISA-8 you likely can.
Any sources for this card ? I'll do a search on the net but several people
mentioned a 3270 card the last while on this list.
< It would be neat if I could run Linux on it.
No way! All the ram you have is the 1meg on the
inboard and I think it
used the 256k (maximum) on the mother as expanded mem. If yu can find the
memory card that piggy backs to it you can add either a meg or maybe two
to it. Nomantter what linux in less than 4meg would be poor and
completely unrunable in under 2mb.
Oh well, I guess it's back to planning the Linux install on my 10 meg 8580
Ps/2.
Windows 3.1 does run on it with the 1meg.
I've got 3.1 running on a 1 meg PS/1 2011 with MSWorks , I find Wintel boring.
I want something a little more interesting. Maybe I'll put GEM on it.
Allison
ciao (is this what set Enrico off ? )
larry
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