[AusNOG] Blast from the past - 1994 connect.com.au brochure

Damien Gardner Jnr rendrag at rendrag.net
Thu Nov 13 14:47:13 EST 2014


My HP 100LX palmtop (still in use, very handy serial terminal when in the
DC) runs an 80186 :)  now if only I hadn't killed the DC input on it years
ago, I could use rechargeable batteries still and keep it charged :\

On 13 November 2014 14:44, Robert Hudson <hudrob at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 13 November 2014 14:30, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker <
> Alex.Samad at yieldbroker.com> wrote:
>
>>  I remember using a slate and chalk at junior school… a long time ago.
>> This was in the uk..
>>
>>
>>
>> Used 8088, 8086, 80186, 80386, 80386, DOS, DRDOS, CPM, Lotus 123 J,
>> VisiCalc. Dbase ][. Apple ][, ][e, III, Lisa. OS2 (loved it ).
>>
>
> Not many people were even aware that there was an 80186 CPU - we had
> Research Machines PCs at my school in the UK that used them... :)
>



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Damien Gardner Jnr
VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust
rendrag at rendrag.net -  http://www.rendrag.net/
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We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
 We ran to the sounds of thunder.
We danced among the lightning bolts,
 and tore the world asunder
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