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Re: IBM "COLOSSUS 486 DX2-50 ? Setup Disks?

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From: Peter Hayward
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 00:00
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In article <932419774snz@longley.demon.co.uk>
           David@longley.demon.co.uk "David Longley" writes:

| A site I am currently supporting has a set of 496 machines  which
| seem  to  be  built by IBM but  are  called  "COLOSSUS".  They're
| desktops, and have either DX2-50 INTEL CPUs or DX2-66 AMDs.
|
| I need to track down the setup disks. Can anyone suggest where  I
| might find them (looked at IBM site).

   If it helps I was using a 'Colossus' branded IBM m/c (slower than
   above) this afternoon.  When booting hitting Ctl+Alt+S at exactly the
   right moment got into the BIOS.

-- 
Peter Hayward, Cambridge, UK.      | If the law is an ass what does
peter@cdsl.demon.co.uk             | that tell us about the
tel +44-1223-312-923               | politicians that make the laws?
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From: peter@cdsl.demon.co.uk (Peter Hayward)
Subject: Re: IBM "COLOSSUS 486 DX2-50 ? Setup Disks?
Date: 1999/07/22
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