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From: rwp@cup.portal.com (Roger William Preisendefer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: RE: compuadd
Message-ID: <27591@cup.portal.com>
Date: 6 Mar 90 04:12:27 GMT
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The company I work for bought 10 Compuadd machines ranging from 12MHz
286 to 25 MHz 386 machines (with most of the in between models.)  I'm
the person who had to set them up.  Setup proved to be fairly easy, as
all of the hard drives came preformatted, and they were generally configured
correctly.  WHen we decided to add memory to most of them, I got to open
them up.  They were mostly Western Digital hard drives and controllers
(except the 90M, which was a Wren.)  All of the VGA cards were Paradise
16 Plus cards.  The 212, 320, and 325 used SIMMS (80ns), while the 316
used 256K 80ns chips (ugh).  The 316 could only hold 2 meg without a
daughter board addition.  The 320 and 325 used microprocessors which were
rated for the clock speed advertised (as did the others, of course.)  One
hard disk was DOA, and was promptly replaced within one hour (there was a
store in our area.)  The monitors provided with the units were fixed
frequency, and the floppy drives were Mitsubishi.