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From: wek@point.UUCP (Bill Kuykendall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: PCs Limited (Dell) 286's & Lotus 3.0
Message-ID: <[1919]comp.ibmpc@point.UUCP>
Date: 14 Sep 89 13:00:04 GMT
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We recently tried to install Lotus 1-2-3 Release 3.0 on a 2.5 year old PCs
Limited 286 (the 8mz model with smartview).  No combination of memory
configuration switches for the base 1 MB could be made to work.  We added an
Intel Aboveboard with 2 MB and tried various combinations as well (This
model can be configured with different amounts of base memory and extended
in the first meg via dipswitches).  No luck.  Next we tried another
identical machine.  Same results.  It will load and run on a 386 that we
tried and a 286 from another manufacturer.  All machines were attempted from
the same set of install disks.

Has anyone else tried to use Release 3 with an older PCs Limited?  If so,
and it worked, what revision is your motherboard, and the approximate date
of manufacture?  Please tell me we don't have a major problem here...

Bill Kuykendall
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