carlsson
Veteran Member
I finally got a PC compatible! Err.. ok, I've have been using modern PC's for at least a decade, but previously I didn't own anything older than a Pentium 75. Now I do, for sure.
Here is my Victor "Vicky", a 8088 that seems able to run at 4.77 or 7.16 MHz. It comes with 512 kB RAM and a 20 MB HDD. I haven't checked the exact hard disk type, but I suppose ST412/506 type interface. Its built in graphics is supposedly switchable between mono and colour. I haven't looked up exactly which graphics modes those are. The installed operating system is MS-DOS 4.01, Victor edition. I also got some folders with original docs.
Since it was not screwed tight, I opened it up to take a picture:
And yes, I picked all this up for free! Now I may look around for a 8-bit ISA network card, perhaps even VGA. Then I could install Mike Brutman's TCP/IP routines and get onto the network. Since it only has three expansion slots, I would have to remove one if I want to install more than one new. The two currently installed seems like the HDD controller and a serial/paralllel port card. Somewhere I have a 16-bit combined HDD controller (ST412/506) and serial/floppy port, but maybe that card would not work at all in a 8-bit slot.
Actually, I am bidding on a 80286 board too, a local seller who has a bunch of old and new expansion cards and another HDD. I might end up getting that too, whatever I would do with it.
Here is my Victor "Vicky", a 8088 that seems able to run at 4.77 or 7.16 MHz. It comes with 512 kB RAM and a 20 MB HDD. I haven't checked the exact hard disk type, but I suppose ST412/506 type interface. Its built in graphics is supposedly switchable between mono and colour. I haven't looked up exactly which graphics modes those are. The installed operating system is MS-DOS 4.01, Victor edition. I also got some folders with original docs.
Since it was not screwed tight, I opened it up to take a picture:
And yes, I picked all this up for free! Now I may look around for a 8-bit ISA network card, perhaps even VGA. Then I could install Mike Brutman's TCP/IP routines and get onto the network. Since it only has three expansion slots, I would have to remove one if I want to install more than one new. The two currently installed seems like the HDD controller and a serial/paralllel port card. Somewhere I have a 16-bit combined HDD controller (ST412/506) and serial/floppy port, but maybe that card would not work at all in a 8-bit slot.
Actually, I am bidding on a 80286 board too, a local seller who has a bunch of old and new expansion cards and another HDD. I might end up getting that too, whatever I would do with it.