classic X86 hardware

[jpero at sympatico.ca]

> Date:          Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:42:29 +1000
> To:            "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> From:          "Dr. Ido" <dr.ido at bigpond.net.au>
> Subject:       Re: classic X86 hardware
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> At 04:34 PM 2/28/05 -0500, you wrote:
> >On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 15:00 -0500, 9000 VAX wrote:
> >> Before you guys start to laugh at me, I would like to itemize some. 
> >> 1. The original IBM PC 5150/5160 MB
> >> 2. The HP 100LX, 200LX palm PC
> >> 3. The original Nexgen pentium class PC
> >> 4. The IBM "butterfly" 486 laptop
> >> 5. You name it
> 
> The Compaq Deskpro 386 for beating IBM to market.
> The Tandy 1000 series for outliving the PCjr that it was a clone of.  
> 
> I'm not familiar with the Nexgen, was it anything like the Compaq Deskpro
> 5/60?  EISA bus (no PCI), motherboard chipset was Compaq's own.  It would
> have to be one of the 1st Pentium based PCs, but mines too hard to get at
> for me to go looking for date codes.  

Almost missed this:  Hyperion portable.  Very almost pc compatiable 
and rather compact.

There was aftermarket stuff to fit that large connector on the back:  
bring it up to 640K, etc.

Cheers,

Wizard