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[Thomas Clayton]

Dear Veganlex:

With regards to 80386 market entry dates, my Byte magazine (which
just re-surfaced while cleaning the basement) collection has 1988
issues discussing upgrading older systems to, programming, and
pricing of 386's. So they WERE 'out' (on the market) by then.

> i'm only 13! youngest on the mailing list i bets :~P
I think so. It seems to beat the college kid in Scotland by a FEW
years!

TomC


--- veganalex <veganalex at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 19/06/06, Ben A L Jemmett <ben.jemmett at ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
> > Quoting veganalex <veganalex at gmail.com>:
> > > nope its not the pc1512...its got better specs than the
> pc1512 - its
> > > def. the pc5086
> >
> > In that case, it's not a 1986-vintage machine -- closer to
> 1990, 1991 I think.
> > The PC1512 was launched in 1986 (shipping with GEM/2), so they
> wouldn't have
> > released a 5000-series for quite a while :)
> >
> > BTW, hope you get that Psion working -- the Organiser II was a
> nice machine,
> > although my Model XP has sadly conked it (the power supply
> probably pushed a few
> > too many volts at it, and it let the magic smoke out shortly
> afterwards).
> > Unfortunately you'll probably find it doesn't recognise dates
> past 1999, but I'm
> > sure that won't be much of an issue :)
> 
> as for the date problem...there is a fix that someone
> wrote....just
> the fact that it would take me years to input it, so i was going
> to
> wait untill i could send it down the comms-link i have for it,
> its
> hardly been used actually....bought on a basic shopping spree by
> my
> grandad years ago, then passed to my dad seeing as my grandad
> didn't
> want his wife (my nanny who is now deceased), and then about
> 2weeks
> ago it was passed on to me...i am just using a regular 9v battery
> in
> it at the moment because otherwise i'm scared of blowing it up
> (not
> that much power needed for the machine). I know that the higher
> end
> psion II (the LZ) which had a 4 line screen and was basically
> better,
> had no bug2k problem.
> 
> as for the date of the PC5086, thinking about it...yes it would
> be
> later, but i am sure that i have seen earlier than that...it was
> pushed at (my grandad yet again), because basically the shop
> needed it
> gone, but the reasons they pushed rather than getting an intel
> 286
> machine, was the fact it had a decent gfx card/colour
> monitor...even
> though its an 8086. nearer to 1990 probably, but i thought the
> 386 was
> out by then? not too good on the dates of older
> computers/hardware -
> i'm only 13! youngest on the mailing list i bets :~P
> 
> veganalex
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Ben A L Jemmett.
> > (http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/,
> http://www.deltasoft.com/)
> >


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