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Yeah, I am not sure what happened to AST. I think they didn't realize that clones were becoming low priced commodities by the mid 90s. Their systems were pretty cool from an engineering point of view, ...

Had one of these back in the day and got rid of it when I upgraded to a 486 around 1995.

It was neat design. All of the memory was held on a proprietary expansion card that could be configured, v ...

This is a common problem with old MFM drives. By the way, this drive is not as old as you think. It is a 40MB drive. Looking at my old Infoworld, PC Magazine and Computing issues, 40MB drives did n ...

Windows 3.1 will run in standard mode only on a 286.

DesqView should be able to preemptively multi-task on a 286, but I think that you must have a particular type of EEMS memory card to make this ...

How do I multi-task on a 286? System has 2MB on an AST memory card, 640KB on the board. It's a clone with an AMD 10MHz chip.

DesqView will load more than one program but when you switch a program t ...

Well, the computer is on my workbench in the garage at the moment. I am going to take it apart to clean the chassis and then put it back together with the EMS card and bigger hard drive. Might take a ...

This looks the same as my board (green PCB and Juko ST sticker on the BIOS). I'm running a 10MHz V30, though. No FPU on my board. My BIOS is dated early 1990, pretty late in the game for an XT clone. ...

It is a Juko Super Turbo XT motherboard.

You FPU isn't taking the overclock very well?

Is it possible to multi-task under Desqview on an XT class system? I have an old XT clone that I would like to setup as a dedicated DOS box. It's a 10MHz V30 CPU (I believe this has some 286 instructi ...

Wdegroot,

My understanding is that a floppy controller with a newer BIOS will allow one to run high-density 3 1/2" floppy drives in an old XT or 286 system. I had a 2.88MB drive in a 286 at on ...

Well, it wasn't the CPU.

I replaced the IBM BIOS on the mobo with an AMI BIOS from a dead board in my parts stash and now all is well. The date on the "new" BIOS is March 1990. The old BI ...

Hi guys,

Been a few weeks since I have checked the boards here.

It's been raining cats and dogs on the west coast, so I have been playing with an old IBM PC/AT that I have upgraded with an Inboa ...

[Edit: This was supposed to be a reply to the thread below, but I haven't had my coffee yet this morning....sorry!]

AC,

Thanks again for your help. You always seem to hit the nail on the head. ...

Does anyone know what kind of controller that I need for a Maxtor XT-2190? This is a 190MB full height, 5 1/4" drive. I know that it can be used with either an MFM or RLL controller, but as I rec ...

Made a mistake....I found the 5x86-133, and it is actually an AMD chip. So much for my memory. Smile