Re: Blue Lightning DX2/66

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From: Martin Smith
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 00:00

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In article <+nsMdECPURF5Ewg+@jasper.org.uk>, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
>You have what is known as a "PC2000".  (it's in a mini-tower case?)
>These were produced by IBM for a major contract (I think it may have
>been the MoD) but the deal fell through and the machines were sold off
>on the open market.  Time Computers bought a load of them and sold them
>under the 'Colossus' brand.
>
>They're not particularly good or reliable machines.

Yes, I scrapped a couple of those earlier this year, all that was useful
was one 4x cdrom, mobo's were utter shite, everything built in, one
bit fails and you are stuffed, you will however get an average AT
motherboard in the case... good luck

-- 
Martin Smith

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Subject: Re: Blue Lightning DX2/66
Date: 2000/05/07
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