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- From: raju@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Daryanani)
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- Subject: Re: Taken delivery of an old PC... now what?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.084718.3809@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 08:47:18 GMT
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- In <25430@castle.ed.ac.uk> asr@castle.ed.ac.uk (Angus "Fluffy" Rae) writes:
-
- >wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand) writes:
- >>asr@castle.ed.ac.uk (Angus "Fluffy" Rae) writes:
-
- >>>that will fit in that blank socket? Does the AddRam board need some sort
- >>>of boot software, as the Basic startup said I had 62k which seems a
- >>>little low...? And why the heck am I bothering to do this?
- >>If only 62K show up than I don't think its seeing the RAM board. I'm not
- >>sure what you need to make it work.
-
- >That's what I thought...Okay, has anyone out there had experience with
- >this board, or something similar? I'm assuming that the board is either
- >faulty or incorrectly set, or needs some sort of boot software (which
- >would explain the clock problem, as I assume the board clock would need
- >copying to the internal clock on boot...)
-
- You should see it counting up the RAM on bootup. ROM Basic only uses a 64K
- data segment, hence the 62K free message. The AddRam board sounds like a
- multi-function board to me, i.e., RAM + clock + serial port + game port. But
- on the old PCs you needed a program to read the clock and set the system dat
- and time, as on your Atari, because IBM only built a clock into the AT and at
- that point they started providing ROM support for it. Your Addram board
- sounds like it's loaded with RAM and you should see the startup memory tests
- count up to 640K at the most.
-
- >I expect nothing, to be quite honest - my current goal is to get
- >something semi-substantial running on it, perhaps moria or just larn -
- >Ultima Underworld is right out....! And Windows? Pah... can you even get
- >windows to run on an 8088?
-
- You should be able to get Windows versions up to 3.0 to run on it. Win3 you
- have to run in real mode - startup with win /r. But I think you can't use any
- version after 1.x off floppies only. I'm don't remember if I tried runnng 2.x
- off floppies.
-
- Raju
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- Raju M. Daryanani
- raju@dcs.qmw.ac.uk
-