Subj : Re: 386 OS/2 Woes...
To   : Abbub
From : Vorlon
Date : Tue Apr 25 2023 14:42:22

Hi Abbub,

 On Sunday April 23 2023, Abbub said to Vorlon:

 >> Anything to get a old machine up and going... They need all the love
 >> they can get

 A> This old guy is actually in pretty good shape. 1 GB CF card for the main
 A> drive, a Gotek for the floppy, ATI Mach 8, Etherlink III, a dual 16550

I've got a Gotek for my Amiga's. A great way to replace a dead floppy drive
when the original's are so hard to source.

 A> I have a 40 MHz AMD chip in it, 32 MB of RAM, and I have replaced that cache chip so now it has a working  A> 256k cache. It's about as 'suped-up' as a 386 can get.

 It's at the sweet spot.. One of first intel based machines was a 386DX40
with 8mb of ram.. It ran OS/2 3 as well and served as the BBS machine.
Started with Desqview/Qemm...


\/orlon
aka
Stephen

Rocking FSXnet with an Amiga 4000 and Zeus BBS.

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