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From: gaarder@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Steve Gaarder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Compaq portable 286 questions
Message-ID: <8897@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 20 Sep 89 21:15:04 GMT
Reply-To: gaarder@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Steve Gaarder)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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I'm considering buying a used Compaq portable 286 and have a few
questions about expandability, since I've heard that Compaqs are
somewhat non-standard:

It has a 20 meg hard drive.  Can common larger hard drives (Seagate,
Miniscribe, etc) be substituted or added?

Can other video cards (ega, vga) be put in and used with an external monitor?

The keyboard is hard-wired in, and, I'm told, uses a non-standard electrical
interface.  Does anybody know anything about this interface?

Reply by Email, I'll summarize.

Steve Gaarder
gaarder@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu
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