Chris2005
Banned
I like anything early (IBM wise), but I particularly like the "semi-compatibles" - Tandy 2000 (my first puter), NEC APC and APC III, Mindset, Victor 9000, DEC Rainbow, Zenith z-100/120, Sanyo MBC-555. Early 8088/8086/80188/80186's, a few early '286's. ANYTHING w/a 80186. I fancy the idea of building a motherboard one of these days - based on the '186 of course. There was an article in Radio Electronics in '87 I think on building something like this, intended for a robot though. I'm learning there were a handful more pc's based on the '186 than I thought (Burroughs ICON turned up this week in a search).
If you're interested in digging deep into this stuff, I suggest you join my yahoo group - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tandy2000/ Not alot of activity as of yet. I'll be posting various technical facts and whatnot when I find more time. The ultimate aim is to learn what made these thing incompatible w/the original IBM PC, and how to make them run it's software. I know a smattering of assembly language, basic, c, and I thought it would also be fun to write a more or less simple game for the T2K or the NEC, due to the fact that it had much better graphics (until the EGA etc. came along).
If you're interested in digging deep into this stuff, I suggest you join my yahoo group - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tandy2000/ Not alot of activity as of yet. I'll be posting various technical facts and whatnot when I find more time. The ultimate aim is to learn what made these thing incompatible w/the original IBM PC, and how to make them run it's software. I know a smattering of assembly language, basic, c, and I thought it would also be fun to write a more or less simple game for the T2K or the NEC, due to the fact that it had much better graphics (until the EGA etc. came along).