The monster lives!!!!

[XMEN Iceman]

Yep,<br>For the first time in like 10 years I dragged THE original Compaq 386 computer out of my closet to see if she was still alive. Back when a tech friend of mine gave it to me it was worth $12,000. It was the machine that Compaq first beat IBM to the marketplace with a new processor.<br><br>Here are the blazing specs:<br><br>Intel 386 processor, running at a blistering 16mhz.<br>4 meg of DRAM<br>40 megabyte WD hard drive<br>40 meg Irwin tape backup<br>1.2 meg 5.25inch floppy drive<br><br>She came up, asked for the setup floppy so she could reinitialize her bios, since the battery was low.<br><br>I ran a disk scan on her Stac'd/compressed hard drive, no errors. Booted up to Windows 3.1 just fine.<br><br>I expected her to cough and spit up...but she is running like a champ. Not bad for a computer almost 20 years old. They were sold back in 1986. I was selling them for CompuShop/Bell Atlantic.<br><br>I actually met Bill Gates and Rod Canion of Compaq at the 386 debut in Dallas. I didn't really realize at that time what would happen to them...but they both became icons of the industry. Boy if I had invested some money in both their companies at that time I would be in Aspen right now sipping my Grande Late' <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/laugh.gif ALT=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>

[XMEN Gambit]

Ah, the good ol' days... <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/laugh.gif ALT=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.xmenclan.org/xmengambit.gif"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br>XMEN member<br>Card-carrying DTM<br>OKL Fish-napper<br><br>Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.<br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em> The Tao of Programming</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--></p><i></i>

[XMEN Ravok99]

Computers?? Them fancy calculators have no place in a home... <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/laugh.gif ALT=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p>"Patience is a virtue ... for other people." -Ravok</p><i></i>

[XMEN Ashaman DTM]

It's <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>latte</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->, Ice!<br><br>Dang outsiders don't know about coffee!<br><br> <p></p><i></i>