Subj : Re: 286 is so cool! To : slacker From : mary4 Date : Thu Apr 18 2024 01:43:41 sl> That's so cool! I have mTelnet and mTCP on my 486 so I'm able to access sl> boards from it as well. sl> I always had a soft spot for 286s for some reason. sl> ME TOO! :D MTCP IS AMAZING! sl> Unfortunately my 286 that I've owned for 25+ years seems to be dead for sl> good. It's a Pulstar Turbo-16 that's 16MHz and 4MB of RAM. A bit back, I sl> disassembled it to borrow a floppy drive from it and didn't know there sl> was a loose 'bodge' wire on the bottom of the motherboard. Well, it sl> popped off and I have no idea where it was soldered on. With it off, the sl> computer doesn't boot at all or even beep when turned on. I tried sl> searching where it was connected on the web but got nothing due to it sl> being a random knockoff 286. Looking at the mobo for traces of where it sl> could have been soldered also didn't work. I was able to find one side sl> of where the wire went but not the other. :\ sl>