[SunRescue] RE: Rescue digest, Vol 1 #1015 - 18 msgs

[jcarver]

The III was EGA Monochrome. Win 3.11 worked fine. Usually had to 
load Win 3.0 and then the upgrade to WFW 3.11. No one that I've ever
run into could find a Win 95 driver or NT for that matter. With all the
ram upgrade cards in them you got 10 megs. With an Everex or Boca Ram 
expansion card in one of the expansion slots you could get up to 16
megs. The prize of the series is the IV, IIRC, it was a 486 with VGA
TFT and a bios that "saw big drives" (>512 Meg) without hacking. You've
got me thinking now. !LINUX! Gotto go see if there are any of these
left in the bone pile at work!

				jim


"Sheldon T. Hall" wrote:
> 
> There's also the Compaq Portable III "lunchbox", which came in a '486
> version, has a plasma mono screen, and, with the optional lump on the back,
> takes a couple of ISA cards.  I've heard that there is even a WfWg 3.11
> driver for that screen.  I dunno if you can cram in enough memory to run
> Win95, though.  DOS, OTOH, ought to fly.
> 
> I've still got a Portable II ('286, 640k, greyscale CGA, 5" 360k floppy,
> upgraded to 80 MB HD), and still use it when I need a luggable DOS machine.
>  The thing is over-engineered, but, then, it's still running.
> 
> FWIW, those old Compaqs have some neat shock-absorbing HD mounts.
> 
> -Shel
> 
> On Tuesday, March 06, 2001 1:10 PM, BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak
> > <bobkeys at weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu> wrote ...
> 
> > To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> > Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 10:12:16 -0500 (EST)
> > Subject: [SunRescue] Old holdouts from the pits of hades.....
> > Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> >
> [snip]
> 
> > For years I have run a low-end dos box (386/20/8mram/ethernet/200mbhd)
> > as a portable ftp ferry box and emergency terminal.  Running kermit
> > or telnet or ftp off the serial or ethernet port in vt100 mode turned
> > out to be a lifesaver, many times.  The large real sized keyboard
> > (as opposed to the miniscule klutzy error-prone modern laptop keyboard)
> > on the luggable IBM P70 crate, was easy to use, and the red plasma
> > screen a joy to read.  Although I would not try to use such a critter
> > as a webscraper, as an ftp/cmdlineterminal box it was ideal.
> >
> > Alas, it went bellyup a few days ago, and parts are unobtainium.
> 
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