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Date:	Fri, 19 Jul 2002 22:43:17 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Red Box, Blue Box

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In <3D385552.7D7C@peterskye.com>, on 07/19/02
at 10:08 AM, Peter Skye said:

>My Compaqs were all 386/486 desktops; I'm not familiar with this one.

It a 486/DX50-2. 25MHz on the outside. 50MHz on the inside.

>iirc in order to install the OS I had to install the latest BIOS upgrade,

This must have been specific to the models you were using.

>then had to tweak something in the BIOS which required a utility program
>because you couldn't get to the BIOS settings from the boot screen, and

You can, but it's an odd key. F2 comes to mind, but I could be wrong
about this. There was also the diagnostics partition to keep things
interesting.

>Compaq tech support was excellent.

Yes, back them they were much better than IBM. Now, I suspect IBM might
be better.

Steven

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