AT&T PC6300 available, in Fort Worth, TX, USA

Roy J. Tellason rtellason at verizon.net
Thu Sep 6 00:49:53 CDT 2007


On Wednesday 05 September 2007 14:31, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 5 Sep 2007 at 11:17, Chris M wrote:
> >  NEC APC, APC III off the top of my head. There's
> > others: <snip>
>
> I meant systems that would load and run PC-DOS right out of the box,
> i.e. "PC compatible" systems.  The Grid would fall under that
> heading, but not many of the others--and certainly not the NEC APC.
>
> The 8086 was attractive for the Grid because it came in a low-power
> CMOS version--the 80c88 came along a bit later.

I'm vaguely remembering an Epson machine -- Equity III?  Something like that, 
I found out it had an 8086 in there when I went to stick a v20 in it,  one 
client had a bunch of machines and had me do that to a number of them for 
him...

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