Nice Find

From: Enrico Tedeschi <e.tedeschi_at_ndirect.co.uk>
Date: Sun Apr 5 16:14:22 1998

Allora la membrana viene ?15.00 + ?2.00 per l'imballaggio e la spedizione. Si
tratta di una membrana del 49K Spectrum (quello con la tastiera di gomma)
NUOVA di zecca (rimanenza del mio negozio ad Acilia).

Puoi mandare o portare questi denari al mio amico

TEODORO PARENTE, Via Monte Vies 4, Isola Sacra, 00054 Fiumicino, Roma
tel(06)6584061, telefonino 0338 490221

con il quale ho un conto aperto e ci sentiamo almento due volte al giorno.

Ciao

enrico

Allison J Parent wrote:
>
> <>It's warped. It's a 386/16 and that's all.
> <Yeah, but with extra RAM, etc. it could very well benchmark as a higher o
> <lower MHz, even with today's Winbench's.
>
> Lower mhz yes faster never. Faster means a timer error or the program is
> broken. The 386 implmentation on that card is very vanilla and no cache.
>
> Besides it's checkes out on mine at 16 using norton, QAFE+ and a few
> others.
>
> <Linux won't run XF86 even in mono mode with less than 8MB RAM, which make
> <zero sense because any PC that shipped with 8MB RAM and a mono card was
>
> Whatever you do don't tell my 386sx/33 that! It might stop working.
>
> < There are several projects going on to have Linux run on 286 and lowe
> <machines, and, of course, lowering RAM consumption. There's an 8MB
> <distribution that only requires 512K (I believe) RAM, if you give it enou
> <swap space (in that case, it would be 3.5MB)
>
> Look up ELKS.
>
> <>Windows 3.1 does run on it with the 1meg.
> <It'll run, but in my experience, Windows 3.1 doesn't do to much with it.
> <friends 286 (they were still using it last summer when they moved, but i
> <was retrofit with MY 210MB HDD, and a SVGA monitor and graphics card) Yo
> <can't extract files, run most software that was designed for Windows 3.1
>
> Runs good and most software that will fit in 1meg runs ok. Swapping is
> heavy though so a fast disk helps.
>
> 3.0 is ok but it will not run some apps at all!
>
> <I'd go with 3.0, if I had a choice. If I was you, I would just upgrade t
> <DOS 5.0 or so. It'll run loads of software, and is more consistent with
>
> I'm running 6.22 and LW had 5.x on his.
>
> <hardware that you have, minus the 386CPU. And, it's smaller, so you coul
> <actually have more software on it. Come to think of it, I believe that
> <Windows 3.1 is like 25MB, plus the DOS 5.0 that's required to run it, whi
> <fits on 5 720K floppies, I believe.
>
> Huh? I had 6.22, win3.1, procomm+, and a few other things and had about
> 4.5mb free on a 20mb drive. DO5.0 would reduce it some but not alot, 3.3
> would be far smaller and still run w3.1.
>
> Allison

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