How compatible were "MS-DOS Compatible" machines?

[Chris M]

I want Wang cards like that. Don't have a Wang, but I
still want the card...

--- "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at verizon.net> wrote:

> On Tuesday 29 January 2008 14:54,
> scheefj at netscape.net wrote:
> > When I first became interested in collecting (late
> 80's) my first target
> > was "DOS Incompatibles" like those named above. I
> had a Wang PC (great
> > text but little IBM compatibility), Zenith, etc.
> 
> I used to work with a dealer that sold those,  and I
> recall a board that you 
> could add to them to make them somewhat more
> compatible,  though I don't 
> remember now what was on it.
> 
> The last time I had boards and other parts for one
> of those I couldn't find 
> *any* interest in them at all.  Might've been before
> I found this list,  
> though.
> 
> -- 
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> unrelenting -- and
> ablest -- form of life in this section of space,  a
> critter that can
> be killed but can't be tamed.  --Robert A. Heinlein,
> "The Puppet Masters"
> -
> Information is more dangerous than cannon to a
> society ruled by lies. --James 
> M Dakin
> 
> 



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