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This is another one from the
scrap yard so the first thing to do with this was to
strip it out and check for any water inside. So whilst it
was in bits I cleaned it all, the only trouble with this
is some rust on the case. Next it was to power it up and
find out a bit more about it, unfortunately when it
started up there was a hard disk error, so I checked the
BIOS settings and they seemed to be OK. So then it was
onto swapping ribbons and that didn't work so I had just
about given up when I decided to swap the power cable for
one of the others and to my surprise it actually went
this time, although there is still a problem as the
system doesn't always recognise it so it might be dying. This
is a 80286 based computer that was made around 1990, they
were shipped with 512k memory standard which was with 2
SIMMs fitted. This one has 4 SIMMs fitted for a total of
1024k memory. This is fitted with a Seagate ST-157A 40MB
hard drive & a Sony MP-F17W-12 1.44MB floppy drive,
there is room for an additional 5.25" drive as well.
They say that you can't add an additional hard drive as
the power supply is only 85w and also there is not
sufficient cooling so it would over heat. It has an
onboard colour VGA output, PS2 type keyboard, 2 com ports
& 1 parallel port. It is also fitted with a full
length DCA network board thin coax type.
It is installed with DOS 3.3 & WordStar
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