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From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo_at_siconic.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 02:10 PM
Subject: Re: Kaypro PC?
> On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Robert Schaefer wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for info on one of these. I's some kind of XT clone, with
> > an eight-bit passive backplane and an upgraded V20 on a CPU card. It
> > runs MSDOS, and currently boots into dosshell. A little googling
> > turns up numerous resumes containing Kaypro PC, and a number of old
> > classiccmp posts regarding them, but no real info. kaypro.com seems
> > to be down ATM. I'd especially like to know what the switch and
> > pushbutton on the back of the CPU card do. IIRC it's not a reset
> > button, but I might be mis-remembering.
>
> There's not much more to know than you already do. It's an XT clone. No
> magic. I don't know what the button on the CPU card does. Have you
> booted it up and tried pushing it to see what happens?
Well, I was hoping it'd be a little more interesting, to somebody else if
not to me. I'm debating about pulling one of the 8284a's off of it to pop
into the PC I've been playing with, but I can't hardly bring myself to pull
parts from a operable machine.
Bob
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