Old 386 and 486 pc's

From: Charles P. Hobbs <transit_at_primenet.com>
Date: Mon Nov 23 08:19:33 1998

On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Allison J Parent wrote:

> < Those and maybe some of the PS/2's as well. (On a related note, anyone
> < remember Leading Edge computers and how the media (Infoworld particularl
> < was falling all over these clones?)
>
> I happen to have a LE model D. It was a well done XT (not even turbo)
> that I still sometimes use for several reasons. Video(mono/herc),
> printer, 360kfloppy and one serial port hardware were all on the board
> with 640k of ram. Adding a HDC and a half height drive and a modem made
> it my first PC for the net.

The LE I have has a built in hard drive (20 Mb), which I had to deep
format once (involves going to DEBUG, and typing in an address or
something like that). I haven't really used it in about 2 years or so, but
as far as I know it still works.

My interest in collecting these particular computers (PC Clones) has less
to do with their collectability (unlike collecting old 8-bit machines),
and more to do with getting a few folks started in computing, but without
spending a lot of cash . ..

[...]

>
> I can't comment on the media WRT to PCs as it was the first PC I owned
> (got it in '92 when its owner retired it) so up to that point Z80, PDP11,
> VAX were only in my field of view.

That was in reference to Infoworld, which got a lot of angry letters for
gushing over the LE clones while being much more critical of "innovative"
machines such as the Amiga. This was in late 1985 to mid 1986, when the
Amiga first came out.
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