You wouldn't want to guess what I found in the basement behind the washing
machine, yesterday, would you?
I think a few of the screws are missing, along with the power supply (which
was a BOSCHERT switcher) which is what I was scanvenging when I last looked
at the thing.
If you want it, I can arrange to send it to you. (the 3COM server with the
'186 running it, I mean.)
regards,
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey L Kaneko <jeff.kaneko_at_juno.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: 186 (was: CompuGraphics Question)
>On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 17:49:28 +1 "Hans Franke" <Hans.Franke_at_mch20.sbs.de>
>writes:
>> 186 ? Interesting ... it seams that there are way more 186 beaste
>> than I have asumed... This could be a collecting theme on their own.
>
>You bet! There are at least two more '186 machines nobody mentioned.
>ANyone remember the MAD 186? It was kinda like a mindset, but the
>innards were different. TELEX also marketed a rebadged version of the
>MAD computer-- the TELEX 1186. I used to have one of these (I think
>I still have the PSU/FDD unit around here someplace).
>
>Two more rarely seen machines are the 3Com 3Server, and 3Server3's.
>They both used 80186 CPU's (some guy at 3Com explained that they
>used it because the chips built-in dual DMAC's gave good disk I/O
>performance).
>
>Anyways, these beasts used a highly customized version of MS-dos,
>which ran 3Com's LAN software. They were strictly servers-- these
>things had no on-board video; you had to use a terminal to see what was
>going on, if it refused to boot (which was often). It was a seriously
>cool
>box in 1986. I still have the software for it around here someplace . .
>.
>
>I'm sorry I scrapped mine in 1993.
>
>Jeff
>
>>
>> Gruss
>> H.
>>
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Received on Thu Aug 05 1999 - 09:26:58 BST