-=> Roy J. Tellason said to Greg Mayman
 -=> about "SILICON CHIP ON LINE" on 05-06-04  12:06.....

 RJT> What kind of machine is this?  Sounds like some Compaq stuff I ran
 RJT> across... 

Actually it was an Epson. The same problems as I had with another
computer I was given, a Compaq that also died.

And I've seen a couple of others whose brands I can't remember.

I guess we remember them more just because they can't be fixed or
upgraded.

 GM> At least I get a mouse, a keyboard, and some internal cables out of
 GM> the exercise...

 RJT> That's more than I got out of this Compaq 286 machine that somebody
 RJT> gave me a while back,  the floppy was definitely nonstandard,  the HDD
 RJT> was an 80M drive, the PS was very definitely nonstandard,  the RAM was
 RJT> soldered in,  and most of the internal cabling was proprietary.  At
 RJT> least I'll get some scrap out of it.

I still have a 40m and an 80m that came out of my Compaq. I
_might_ use then one day to build a low end machine with some 486
m'boards I bought "as-new" that I haven't got around to using
yet...

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