On 15 Feb 06  04:21:48, Errol Smith got back to All 
-> Re: Commodore Colt PC/XT

 ES> herbie.vcsweb.com 1139959928 14719 69.60.118.107 (14 Feb 2006 23:32:08

Lot's of kludge lines there!   

 > Cr> Yup thats correct it was a NEC V20 chip, I cant remember how fast it
 > Cr> was, I  want to say 10mhz but I do know it was a little faster than the
 > Cr> stock 8088  chip.
 >
 >6 or 8 sounds right to me.   

 ES> It's been many years since I had one of these, but I remember it had
 ES> 3 speeds, one of them (the fastest) was undocumented. You could press
 ES> Ctrl-Alt- to change the speeds, and it would make a tone from the
 ES> speaker similar to the speed (higher the tone, the faster the speed).

I considered buying one, but I wasn't doing a lot of number crunching.  

I know it had 2 speeds, but I never heard of the 3rd...  


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