Hah!
I have a 286 Topline portable set up next to the phone as an emergency fax
machine. Its battery is toast, but the thing has a gorgeous mono screen - big
and bright! - _and_ it has a half-length expansion slot, which neatly houses
a once phenomenal Intel SatisFaxion modem (2400 baud data and 9600 fax, would
you believe it?)
It runs Caldera DR-DOS 7.01 (the multitasking DOS that was too much and too
late) and WordPerfect SixOh for DOS (IMNSHO still the best WP ever).
I did have WebSpyder on it for a short while, but the modem really is too
slow for present-day WWW-work (it was acceptable around '98, though...,
before the Bandwith Kidnappings and the Great Commercials Infestation).
To be completely honest, I did upgrade the portable a bit; it originally (way
back in '89!) came with a 40 MB hard disk and 1 MB of RAM (in the context of
the aera, this was one mean mother of a luggeable!), but when I upgraded one
of my desktops in '95, I discovered the Topline accepted - then - ordinary
32-pin SIMMs, and I boosted its RAM all the way up to 5 MB! (an Intel 286
would have choked, but this was a superior AMD 16 MHz and it could take it).
Later I threw out the 40 MB disk and slapped in a 100 MB whopper; somehow the
BIOS found a way to accept it, althought to this day I still have no idea how
it did it: the partition table in the BIOS displays plain nonsense.
Ain't it fun to be a luddite?
On Friday 28 December 2001 07:27, you wrote:
> my PC junior is doing just fine, thank you...with
> Windows 3.1, 640kb RAM, and a 12" color monitor
> (connected to a 9-pin dot matrix Okidata printer...w i
> d e carriage!) I also have it networked using
> Lantastic v5...I love that wireless keyboard too!
> (now, if I can only get my AT&T EO-440 networked!)
> Ed
> web/gadget guru
>
> --- Chris Chapman <pan1k_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Well, my NeXTbox aint much better;). It's got 128MB
> > of ram and a 1gb
> > HD. woohooooooo.
> > On Thursday, December 27, 2001, at 09:34 PM, James
> >
> > Elliott wrote:
> > > I've got a sweet Quadra 700 as my ftp server. I
> >
> > have eight megs of
> >
> > > RAM, an
> > > ethernet connection, and a two-gig hard drive.
> >
> > Can you get any better
> >
> > > than
> > > that?
> > >
> > > -James
> > >
> > >> On 12/27/01, Ken Whitcomb quoth:
> > >>> I have to admit Chris, I'm a closet Quadra user
> >
> > too.....
> >
> > >> Not me, mine's right out in the living room.
> > >>
> > >> (so any possible thief will steal it instead of
> >
> > the PowerBook in the
> >
> > >> bedroom)
> > >>
> > >> later
> > >> --
> > >> ben. (out, loud and proud)
>
> =====
> Just because you're a genius, doesn't make you a smart guy!
> - The Powerpuff Girls -
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