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Subject: Re: Info wanted on Eagle XT clone
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Date: 2 Feb 90 21:44:00 GMT
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/* Written  4:42 pm  Jan 29, 1990 by unix1.UUCP!fawcett in adaptex:comp.sy.ibm.pc */
/* ---------- "Info wanted on Eagle XT clone" ---------- */
I recently inherited an XT clone from a friend.  It's made by Eagle, a company
that no one seems to have heard of.  Although I've seen a manual for it, I
don't have copies, or much information at all.  I have a few questions for
anyone who knows anything about them:

1) Is Eagle even still in business?  I've looked at all kinds of DOS/PC/XT
books, and I never see Eagle mentioned at all, so I assume they were a
small-time manufacturer, or maybe an OEM supplier.

2) Are there any known (notorious) incompatibilities?  In particular, it came
with DOS 2.11, which I'd like to upgrade to 3.0.  Is there any reason I
couldn't/shouldn't do this?

3) It has a card with 2 serial ports on it, made by Eagle, that says
"RS232/2".  The Norton SI program confirms that 2 serial ports are present,
but I can't get my modem to work with it, and I have a serial port debugging
program which tells me there's nothing there.  My friend told me the card is
"probably nonstandard"; anyone have any ideas?  I thought RS232 was pretty
standardized.

4) My friend told me that EMS probably wouldn't work on it, meaning I'm stuck
with the 640K limit.  Is this true?  Is there any way of confirming this?

5) Any interesting peculiarities/features/bugs?

Thanks to anyone who can help me out.

-Tom Fawcett (fawcett@cs.umass.edu)
UMass/Amherst
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