Compaq portable questions (not laptop)

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Fri Nov 13 14:33:16 1998

At 02:05 PM 11/12/98 -0800, you wrote:
>At 05:23 PM 11/12/98, you wrote:
>> There was also a Portable III. I have five of them!! They're a little
>>larger than a lunch box and have a 12 MHz 286 CPU and a fold out gas plasma
>>screen. They have a place for a MODEM on an ISA card in the bottom of the
>>case. And a place for a memory expansion card that held up to six SIMMs.
>>The SIMMS that were available were 256K or 1 meg so you could have up to 6
>>Megs & 640K of memory. There was an option to add a box on the back that
>>contained an 8 bit and a 16 bit ISA slots. Mine have the box with the ISA
>>card slots and I use them for portable instrument controllers.
>
>Did they market a Portable III to 386 upgrade kit? I've got a Portable III
>with a 386-20 (well, now a 486slc-40) in it, but it still has the III on
>the case and the XT-style keyboard.

   I'm not aware of a 386 or 486 upgrade kit, but They use a weird board in
them so if your's has a 386 then it almost certainly had to have come from
Compaq. BTW the PIII came with two different styles of keyboards.

  Joe
Received on Fri Nov 13 1998 - 14:33:16 GMT