The monster lives!!!!
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 7:45 pm
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>
