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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,alt.flame
Subject: Re: No problem AT clones (Flame on Compaq)
Keywords: clones ruinous hardware tweaks doom frustration exasperation
Message-ID: <627@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 87 02:55:12 GMT
References: <2001@briar.Philips.Com> <3151@bnrmtv.UUCP> <636@qetzal.UUCP> <866@amadeus.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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We are now buying Compaq computers. But all our older machines are IBM. And we
didn't want to waste money on stocking both "standard" and Compaq hard drives
for spares.  (With over a hundred machines, spares are _not_ a luxury!)

The solution is rather simple. On the Deskpro 286, you flip _one_ dip switch
which disables the hard drive controller on the multifunction board. Then add
a (cheap) WD controller and you have a Compaq running a standard drive and
controller pair. 

-- 
Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
CIS: [70465,203]
"I used to be a hacker. Now I'm a 'microcomputer specialist'.
You know... I'd rather be a hacker."