I have recovered an Olivetti M21. Its an 8086 based system with floppy
disk and 20 Mb hard disk in a case reminiscent of the original Compaq.
Anyone have technical info on this beastie? I noticed an extra DA-9 (?)
connector on the mother board which is not available when the covers are
in place - what's that for?. Also the definition of the two DIP switch
blocks on the mother-board which do not seem to follow the IBM spec.
And thirdly how to get into setup, or a copy of the setup disk.
I have tentativly decided to dedicate this system to an attempt to port
the Z80 UN*X kernel that Allison mentioned a couple of weeks ago. Got it
all fired up with DOS 3.1 and Turbo C 1.5 at the moment, I will be
adding a vintage copy of BRIEF and away I go.....
As an aside, in looking through my store of 5-1/4" disks, I see I have
IBM versions of DOS 1.0, 1.10, 2.00, 3.10, and 3.30, gosh they go back a
ways. Also found some MS disks with old versions of Windows and a
GWBasic adaptation kit.
Regards,
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Hans B. Pufal : <mailto:hansp_at_digiweb.com>
Comprehensive Computer Catalogue : <http://www.digiweb.com/~hansp/ccc/>
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