Caluser2000
Banned
Got given a couple of 386s today.
A DX25 with co-pro, 8megs of ram, scsi controller with scsi 160meg hdd and 3.5" fdd. Works fine with wfw 3.11 installed on it. First ISA based scsi card I've had yippee!! The hard drive is labeled as an Apple product. Strange case with speed LEDs and a sliding door the hides the 51/4" bays.
The second, an SX of some sort, 16mhz I think, has an error on startup does the ram count and reboots. Can't seem to get into the bios for some reason, even though DEL is the correct key to press to access it. Came with a 50meg IDE hdd with some cool dos based software, including what looks like satellite tracking software. Direct Access is the front end to launch the programs. Tested that hdd is functioning ok by connecting it the one of my 486s that can auto detect the hdd size. This machine has the nicer case of the two. If I have no luck getting it running properly I'll just strip it. No sign on either of battery leakage.
A whole lot of disks came with them both 51/4" and 3.5" in various formats.
Edit:SCSI drive on the DX isn't being picked up now, bummer. Oh well, looks like I'll be fitting the good IDE drive in that.
A DX25 with co-pro, 8megs of ram, scsi controller with scsi 160meg hdd and 3.5" fdd. Works fine with wfw 3.11 installed on it. First ISA based scsi card I've had yippee!! The hard drive is labeled as an Apple product. Strange case with speed LEDs and a sliding door the hides the 51/4" bays.
The second, an SX of some sort, 16mhz I think, has an error on startup does the ram count and reboots. Can't seem to get into the bios for some reason, even though DEL is the correct key to press to access it. Came with a 50meg IDE hdd with some cool dos based software, including what looks like satellite tracking software. Direct Access is the front end to launch the programs. Tested that hdd is functioning ok by connecting it the one of my 486s that can auto detect the hdd size. This machine has the nicer case of the two. If I have no luck getting it running properly I'll just strip it. No sign on either of battery leakage.
A whole lot of disks came with them both 51/4" and 3.5" in various formats.
Edit:SCSI drive on the DX isn't being picked up now, bummer. Oh well, looks like I'll be fitting the good IDE drive in that.
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