Re(2): Soda-talking (was Re: [SunRescue] Real ISP)

[Paul Khoury]

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:33:39 -0500, Tim Hauber wrote:

>rescue at sunhelp.org writes:
>>P70's I think - Dunno if it was MCA, I think so.  I think a 30-80MB HD,
>>gas
>>plasma
>>screen, luggable, 386DX-25 or something like that, max RAM was something
>>stupid
>>like 8-10MB.
>>
>>Paul
>
>386 DX, ranged from 12-20 MHz (IIRC) held 8M on board, 8M in one of two
>MCA slots, had external access to one of the slots for Modem or NIC, Cost
>an absolute bundle when new, in fact according to the IBM site you can
>still spend $5+K easily buying replacement parts, but I doubt they
>actually have any left, those are just old prices.  


Oh no, they'll still charge you and arm, a leg, and two feet!
When my first ThinkPad needed repair  (long story, don't ask), and it was current,
they wanted more than the machine was worth to fix it!!!

My goal was to make a
>luggable terminal/telnet machine, but mine seems to have decided it has a
>memory glitch and turned off memory interleave, which made it kinda slow
>for a 386 DX/20
>
Even for a serial text terminal?