On Wednesday 18 May 2005 09:41, Trevor Warren wrote:
http://hardware.newsforge.com/hardware/05/05/17/1528245.shtml?tid=6 8&tid=59
Talking of old pcs, I needed a few ttl ics and buffers to set right a communication system at a petrochem plant Sunday 3am. There were no devices available until i chanced upon an old pc. The mobo was dated 1988 and the cpu 1987. It was those horizontal boxes and weighed about 10 kgs. Inside was a 20MB harddrive, 5.25" fdd, 256 KB ram, cga graphics card, hdd/fdd card and a 286 16 MHz cpu. And several buffers and ttls. Tried booting it. But no luck as the onboard battery had leaked and corroded the pcb. I managed to desolder the ics i needed and get the communication system running.
rgds jtd
sherlock@vsnl.com wrote:
Talking of old pcs, I needed a few ttl ics and buffers to set right a communication system at a petrochem plant Sunday 3am. There were no devices available until i chanced upon an old pc. The mobo was dated 1988 and the cpu 1987. It was those horizontal boxes and weighed about 10 kgs. Inside was a 20MB harddrive, 5.25" fdd, 256 KB ram, cga graphics card, hdd/fdd card and a 286 16 MHz cpu. And several buffers and ttls.
My very first pc was a 8086/88 based one with a 'turbo' button that would increase frequency from 4 Mhz (normal) to 8 Mhz. It had no HDDs but had 2 FDDs of 360 Kb each. The RAM was 64 or 640? Kb. It had a horizontal bus board, with the cpu, I/O and other cards mounted vertically. The cpu was like a large ISA card. It was later sold off on weight. The monitor was a green phosphor one with an RCA video-in socket for cvs 50/60 Hz input. It could also play our tv signals but in green colour. The video signal of the computer was 60 Hz.
Regards,
Rony.
What did you run on this baby?. What were the applications one used those days.
Trevor
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On Sunday 22 May 2005 9:24 am, Trevor Warren wrote:
What did you run on this baby?. What were the applications one used those days.
1986 - eiko pc, 4.xx mhz, 256 kb ram, one 360 kp floppy disk, green monitor and hercules graphics card - used to run wordstar, quattro pro and borland pascal. Wrote an online billing prog for a pub - prog and data all on the 360 kb floppy
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