More old stuff incoming

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 18:23, Grant Taylor via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> On 12/19/2018 09:05 AM, xcvb via cctalk wrote:
> > Tho ive seldom posted but have always read this list i cannot resist -
> > somewhere stored away in my piles of stuff I have an IBM Model 30 I
> > believe that has an 8 bit isa bus and an 80186 cpu.
>
> I am somewhat surprised to learn that any commercially available general
> purpose computer had an 8186 CPU.

80186?

> I would love some confirmation on the CPU.  (I'll look it up in a bit.)

"xcvb" is wrong. It's an 8086.

>  I've only seen it in purpose built
> equipment.  The last one I saw was in a mobile X-Ray or CT machine in
> the late '90s.

The BBC Master had a '186:

http://www.cowsarenotpurple.co.uk/bbccomputer/master512/index.html

http://www.cowsarenotpurple.co.uk/bbccomputer/master512/tube.html

http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Computers/Master512.html

There was an RM Nimbus too.

https://www.thenimbus.co.uk/range-of-nimbus-computers/PC-186

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1011&st=1


> That would mean that IBM PS/2s had every major class of x86 CPU between
> the 8086 (or was it 8088, which is still in the 8x86 family) and the
> Pentium.

They didn't.

8088, 8086, 80286, 80386DX, then 80386SX, 80486, Pentium.

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