Re: ancient hardware O
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>Well you called them boards and cards, so what exactly are
>they? Is there any other info you have about them that
>might be a good lead?
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card and board are the same.
this wa an addon card with dram that had a wall wort to keep it
powered up.
the ram card i have for a compy, is oem,proprietary, and can only work
on that model of 386 as it is a form of local bus.
>Ok, but state of the art could be said of many computers at
>any time in history, until a few months go by and something
>else displaces it as being state of the art. Since it's not
>reasonably usable by today's standards, I don't see why
>adding something that wasn't original equipment would be
>desirable.
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it's like hopping up an old car...
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>Did Byte mention the manufacturer? Contacting them or
>possibly some employee who was there at the time might help,
>or the author of the Byte article.
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i have been all over byte.com, and the internet....
I believe it was pournell who wrote about it in 1990.
around 1990 july or augast/sept.
but, it could have been 1992 in the same months....
>As for proof of sanity...
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i know, that's tougher.
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