PC's Limited

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Thu Jan 21 23:15:16 1999

Bill Sudbrink wrote:
>
> My roommate in college had their 12MHz 286 with 640K of *STATIC* RAM.
> Oh man... I would have given my right arm for that machine. The front
> panel
> was really useful, not just that clone fake display set with jumpers. It
> showed
> POST codes, disk access info CPU speed... That was a cool machine.

IIRC, the Everex had a similar front panel that would display the post codes
and the CPU speed, at least for the 286. I have one in the garage that
didn't head for the metal scrap because of that. One of these days, I'll
have to actually check it out :).
Received on Thu Jan 21 1999 - 23:15:16 GMT