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

15 Sep 1999

--- allisonp(a)world.std.com wrote:
...
    and use an old 386 or 486.  
 Hah! You think everybody's got 386's and 486's laying around?! Sheesh!
 :^)
 I'd use one of my 286's for this job-- assuming it could do anything
 useful.  
 Live with it.  Before I got a decent PC everyone assumed I had a Pentium.
 In the mean time look in dumpsters and garbage pails for your 386, they
 seems to be worthless here (Eastern MA). 
I've seen 12 Mhz 286 motherboards w/memory for sale at local shows for under
$10.  *Finding* intact 286 systems is much harder.  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 tend toward XT-class and 386-class machines, depending on the use.  I never
really got into 286's.

-ethan

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