DOS-73 board and software for sale
Kevin O'Gorman
kevin at kosman.UUCP
Mon Jun 19 15:56:44 AEST 1989
I have been using a DOS-73 board for about 3 years now to do MS-DOS
development on my UNIX-PC. I now have a 286 on order, due in 5 days,
so I will not be needing this any more.
Asking price is pretty flexible -- see below. You can surely have this
for $500(US).
It has given good and faithful service during this time, so I'm hoping
to find it a good home. All docs and original software disks included.
This is a fairly fast co-processor for the AT&T UNIX PC, with 500KB
(non-expandable) ram on-board, and MS-DOS 3.1 (probably also not
upgradable), but does NOT include "backup" and "restore".
PRN is faked into the UNIX printer, spooled or not at your option.
There is a real COM1 port on the back of the board. So you can run
real communications software, or a serial printer, or whatnot.
This board was designed by a team that included a friend of mine, while
AT&T still had hopes for the UNIX PC product. It was indended to answer
the complaint that people could not run LOTUS 1-2-3 on their desktop if
they went with the AT&T solution. So it runs LOTUS (some version or other;
as it happens I never got around to using LOTUS).
The board interfaces to the UNIX PC screen as if there were a Hercules
graphics card (monochrome) in an IBM.
I will take the best offer. I hardly expect more than $500 (about half
the original cost) so I will take that like a flash. Feel free to enter
the auction with any price at all. I promise to accept your offer unless
I get a better offer within 14 days, except that $500 takes it immediately.
Of course, offers under $500 pay the freight -- about $20.00 if I send it
Federal Express. So go ahead and offer me $1.00 if you think you might
maybe like to have a ~$21 MS-DOS machine. Honestly, if that's the best
I get, I will ship it for that, and let my tax accountant figure out the
bleeding investment credit recapture.
If you're in California, I'm sorry, but I've gotta collect sales tax.
I'm a licensed business and I'm actually law-abiding no matter what the
current trends are. Sales tax does not apply to the shipping charge,
so a buck is only $1.06. Hmm, forget that, I'll be a sport and if the
tax is less than .50 I'll eat it (yes it's legal).
Beware, having this board might just addict you to comp.sys.ibm.pc, as I
have been finding out to my horror. Somehow, while I just had the co-
processor I never subscribed. Now that I'm expecting the "real thing"
I have been, and have been discovering that there's a lot of neat stuff
out there for these machines, and quite a bit of it runs on the board.
Speak to me -- I would like to unload.
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