Compaq P III description Re: Fresh Meat

From: Sergey Svishchev <svs_at_ropnet.ru>
Date: Sun May 16 20:50:54 1999

On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 04:53:03PM +0000, Joe wrote:

> installed inside the main case. There are also two optional memory expander
> boards that can be installed. Each hold up to six standard SIMMs. The
> SIMMs can be either 256K or 1Mb types so you can have a total of 6.6Mb of
> RAM in the PIII. One type of expander board makes the memory appear as
> extended memory and the other makes it appear as expanded memory.

Are schematics of these expander boards available? In case I don't manage
to obtain one of them locally, I might just build it myself.

> Although the literature only lists 20 and 40 Mb hard drives as being
> available, Compaq's spare parts list shows several other models including a

Speaking of Compaq parts: what is this? Software? Documentation?

114844-001 DIRECT GRAPHICS INTERFACE STANDARD

> The screen on the P III has VGA resolution not CGA.

It supports all CGA modes and 640x400 monochrome graphics mode (0x40 and
0x74).

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Sergey Svishchev -- svs{at}ropnet{dot}ru
Received on Sun May 16 1999 - 20:50:54 BST

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