From: Errol Smith 
Reply-To: Fidonet Classic_Computer Echo 

At 01:14 PM 14/02/2006, Dan Ceppa wrote:
>On 14 Feb 06  07:07:34, Crgagner got back to Todd Vierling 
>-> Re: Commodore Colt PC/XT
>
> 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.   

 It's been many years since I had one of these, but I remember it had 3
speeds, one of them (the fastest) was undocumented. You could press
Ctrl-Alt- to change the speeds, and it would make a tone from
the speaker similar to the speed (higher the tone, the faster the speed).
Something like ctrl-alt-S, ctrl-alt-F and ctrl-alt-T (or something).
 Ours had a monochrome (Hercules) screen, but you could get CGA emulator
TSR software that would let you play CGA games on the mochrome screen.

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