Subj : Re: 286 is so cool!
To   : mary4
From : slacker
Date : Wed Apr 17 2024 09:58:13

That's so cool! I have mTelnet and mTCP on my 486 so I'm able to access boards from it as well. 
I always had a soft spot for 286s for some reason. 

Unfortunately my 286 that I've owned for 25+ years seems to be dead for good. It's a Pulstar Turbo-16 that's 16MHz and 4MB of RAM. A bit back, I disassembled it to borrow a floppy drive from it and didn't know there was a loose 'bodge' wire on the bottom of the motherboard. Well, it popped off and I have no idea where it was soldered on. With it off, the computer doesn't boot at all or even beep when turned on. I tried searching where it was connected on the web but got nothing due to it being a random knockoff 286. Looking at the mobo for traces of where it could have been soldered also didn't work. I was able to find one side of where the wire went but not the other. :\

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