I had the good fortune of visiting The Computer Museum in Boston in the summer
of 1984. Reading the museum's Wikipedia article, it appears I was there while
they were still freshly setting up their Museum Wharf location, yet hadn't
officially opened yet. Unfortunately I only had an hour (or
I always thought of the distinctions this way (from my basis of exposure from
late 1970s through the 1980s) and from a higher educational setting primarily:
Mainframe = repairs required multiple technicians, some possibly there
full-time; regular operator(s) present, and a locked door located
The LCM has some of stuff (a Zenith Z150 PC computer, including monitor and an
early paged memory expansion that I installed, a couple of Apple IIc computers
and monitors, a printer, but probably more important, a bunch of original
MS-DOS software diskettes and manuals from the mid-1980s to the
The LCM has some of stuff (a Zenith Z150 PC computer, including monitor and an
early paged memory expansion that I installed, a couple of Apple IIc computers
and monitors, a printer, but probably more important, a bunch of original
MS-DOS software diskettes and manuals from the mid-1980s to the
Here is an inventory of what I have for parts that I am desiring to pass on to
others if they are interested or to seek permission to pitch to an electronics
recycler (or rubbish bin) if these things are of limited value due to being
plentiful.
See the main e-mail by the original title for
In response to Chuck Guzis' mentioning that there was more than one design of
what was labeled a Compaq "Deskpro" during the time of PIII processors: the
series of desktops that I used to have,, and from where the extra boards and
drives I have were all pulled, collectively would be called the
On Tuesday, July 20, 2021, 01:11:15 PM CDT, Kevin Anderson
wrote:
For a time I had quite a few Compaq Deskpro towers that had acquired (for free)
from my employer after they updated to a newer HP Compaq model. These Compaq
Deskpros were the white-boxed variety with Pentium III the like
For a time I had quite a few Compaq Deskpro towers that had acquired (for free)
from my employer after they updated to a newer HP Compaq model. These Compaq
Deskpros were the white-boxed variety with Pentium III the like processors that
date to the later part of the 1990s and into the 2000s.
These ? characters often show up for users like me who read via the e-mailed
digests.
Kevin Anderson
