I have a working Compaq. There is no model number. It was/is the original clone of an IBM/XT. The only thing that no longer works is the 5 1/4" floppy disk drive through which you would boot. The B: drive still works, but the A: drive has been used far more often than they thought any human would ever use it. Luckily my father installed a hard drive(60 MB, huge!!!) so it has still been able to boot up. That was the computer on which I learned all about computer hardware and upgrading hardware, etc. I maxed out that machine with as much memory as it could handle(640k main memory and 2M expanded memory). That sounds almost silly to persons in the current scheme of things, but upgrading from 512k to 640k actually made the system quite a bit better. DOS was actually able to run three programs at the same time(as simultaneous as DOS would allow;) I heard my father was going to donate it to Goodwill several years ago and with some persuasion I expressed my desire to have that computer to return back to my childhood days. I have not turned it on in the last few month, but it was working just fine last year. It just takes about 5 minutes to boot into DOS.
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I have a working Compaq. There is no model number. It was/is the original clone of an IBM/XT. The only thing that no longer works is the 5 1/4" floppy disk drive through which you would boot. The B: drive still works, but the A: drive has been used far more often than they thought any human would ever use it. Luckily my father installed a hard drive(60 MB, huge!!!) so it has still been able to boot up. ;)
That was the computer on which I learned all about computer hardware and upgrading hardware, etc. I maxed out that machine with as much memory as it could handle(640k main memory and 2M expanded memory). That sounds almost silly to persons in the current scheme of things, but upgrading from 512k to 640k actually made the system quite a bit better. DOS was actually able to run three programs at the same time(as simultaneous as DOS would allow
I heard my father was going to donate it to Goodwill several years ago and with some persuasion I expressed my desire to have that computer to return back to my childhood days. I have not turned it on in the last few month, but it was working just fine last year. It just takes about 5 minutes to boot into DOS.