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From: reilly@boehm.dec.com
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Bondwell PC/XT clone
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Date: Fri, 13-Jun-86 14:33:37 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 13 14:33:37 1986
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I recently bought a PC/XT clone made by Bondwell.  It is configured with -

	640kb memory (256kb on the mother board and 384kb add on)
	a 1/2 height 360kb floppy drive
	20 mb winni
	CGA with color monitor
	serial port, parallel port
	battery backed up clock

It runs all of the programs I have tried except the PD program PCWINDOW
and a similar package called POPCORN included by the dealer with the machine.

When I run either of these programs they steal the keyboard interrupt and
then terminate and remain resident.  I hit the "hot key" and the program
responds with the display I asked for (ascii table, calandar, clock, etc).
When I exit back to DOS the machine is sometimes hung or responds by dumping
garbage to the screen when I try to enter a DOS command.  When the machine is
hung even CNTL/ALT/DEL doesn't work.  The machine always hangs after I exit
the clock window.  Other windows sometimes work and sometimes cause the
hang or dump.

Can anyone help with this problem?

BTW the machine is a Bondwell model 34 and I am running DOS V2.11.

I have checked/compared the DOS low core locations and INT vectors to the
IBM Technical Manual and they match the IBM PC-2/XT values (even the
addresses in the INT vectors).

Thganks in advance,

Mike Reilly

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