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From: Michael A. Terrell on 30 Jul 2010 23:57

"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" wrote:
>
> "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> fired this volley in
> news:Z8ydnftTmbOphM_RnZ2dnUVZ_g-dnZ2d(a)earthlink.com:
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> > A lot of old EPROM and other device programmers only ran under DOS,
> > so I kept spare machines and motherboards modifed to 640KB.
>
> You talkin' about bus-interfaced boards, or serial port devices? There's
> not much that DOS could ever do over a serial port that can't be done now
> over a decent USB-serial dongle. (W95 made us fear we'd lost the serial
> port, but it's back)


8 bit ISA cards that were too slow to work with anything other than
an XT. They used the software loops to set the programming timing.


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From: Michael A. Terrell on 30 Jul 2010 23:59

Bob La Londe wrote:
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> "Bill Noble" <nobody(a)nowhere.invalid> wrote in message
> news:i2tdnr$m22$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
> > if anyone wants a 286 motherboard with RAM on it (worked when I put it
> > aside) - full sized,
>
> Do they even still make cases that will hold a full size motherboard.


Some 286 boards were really odd. I had one that had 12 ISA slots.


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