TandyMan100
Veteran Member
Repost from my other thread, thought this would be more relevant here:
Questions? Comments? Ideas on stuff I could do? Anyone have a clue how to remove the write-protection that seems to be enabled on the HardCard? I can't format or write any changes to it, so I'm assuming that's the issue.
Also, what would you guys appraise this system at? Hardcard, monitor, pc, and all?
Well, I pulled apart the PS/2 to take a look inside, and found a remarkably clean computer. Hardly any dust to be found. After laughing at the power switch for a while, I removed the modem and put in an Intel Etherexpress 16. However, I noticed this enormous full-length expansion card in the top ISA slot. It had a big plastic cover towards the front which read "Hardcard II 80". Interesting. I'll google that later. I got the etherexpress put in, took some pictures (you'll be able to find a full write-up on retro-box.net when I get my server turned back on), and wrapped it all up. Upon researching the hardcard, it turns out the Hardcard II 80 was an 80mb ISA hard drive expansion for the PS/2 and compatibles. Interesting. I booted up and typed in "D:" the results of which were seen immediately. I then did a DIR, and was greeted with what looked like a standard win3.1 installation with Word and some fonts. I cd'd to the windows directory and ran win, and saw that I was correct. I have no clue how the previous user used this thing with Win3.1, as it was unusably slow for me. Finding nothing of interest on the 80mb hard drive, I formatted it. Pretty interesting stuff. I've got PC-DOS 7 running, and now I just need to replace the RTC chip (those are socketed, right? I can just pull them out?)
Questions? Comments? Ideas on stuff I could do? Anyone have a clue how to remove the write-protection that seems to be enabled on the HardCard? I can't format or write any changes to it, so I'm assuming that's the issue.
Also, what would you guys appraise this system at? Hardcard, monitor, pc, and all?