classic X86 hardware

Innfogra at aol.com Innfogra at aol.com
Tue Mar 1 01:38:25 CST 2005


At a rummage sale last weekend I picked up a 1991 Leading Technology  7000DX, 
an original 25 MHz 386 with a first gen NEC SCSI external CD-ROM,  speakers, 
mouse, Keyboard, VGA monitor. What made it was all the original books  and 
software including about a dozen games of the early 90s including DOOM  II.
 
I couldn't resist the box of SW and books. It was $5 for all. It wasn't  till 
I got it home that I realized it is one of the first 386s (must remember to  
check which chip is in it). I think it is based on the magictronic board set. 
It  had a proprietary memory card which you could load up with up to 8 megs of 
RAM  (this one has 6 Meg.). 
 
I think it was really just used as a household games machine. Did have  
windows 3.1 installed but it really was used as a DOS 5.0 computer. It is a  
classic in its own right...and over 10 years old.
 
Paxton
Astoria, OR


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