17 Sep
1998
17 Sep
'98
6:07 p.m.
since im known at work as a packrat of old computer junk, someone gave me
something called a microsoft <!> mach 20. turns out it's a full length 8 bit
card that has a 286-8 and 2 meg and high density floppy controller on it. it
has a cable that plugs into the 8088 socket and the board does all the
processing. basically turns an xt into an at with lots of memory. i got
everything, disks manuals and the special cable. i guess for a fun vacation
project, i'll see about getting win3.1 running in standard mode or maybe even
os2 1.3 for a challenging project...
david
17 Sep
17 Sep
6:17 p.m.
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998 SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com wrote:
since im known at work as a packrat of old computer
junk, someone gave me
something called a microsoft <!> mach 20. turns out it's a full length 8 bit
card that has a 286-8 and 2 meg and high density floppy controller on it. it
How funny. Back then they didn't have the clout to force computer
manufacturers to make faster hardware to run their slow, bloated
software, so they had to manufacture their own :)
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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7:32 p.m.
since im known at work as a packrat of old computer
junk, someone gave me
something called a microsoft <!> mach 20. turns out it's a full length 8 bit
card that has a 286-8 and 2 meg and high density floppy controller on it. it
has a cable that plugs into the 8088 socket and the board does all the
processing. basically turns an xt into an at with lots of memory. i got
everything, disks manuals and the special cable. i guess for a fun vacation
project, i'll see about getting win3.1 running in standard mode or maybe even
os2 1.3 for a challenging project...
david
If I remember correctly OS/2 1.3 required 3.5Mb. Somehow I don't feel like
burrowing through the "pseudo-rack" of computer hardware that is in front
of that bookcase to check though :^)
Zane
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