Sep 22, 2019
386, Pentium I (unconfirmed), Pentium II, 486, 286
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386, Pentium I (unconfirmed), Pentium II, 486, 286
Commodore 1352 Mouse for their PC compatible family.
This is not a serial mouse, and thus it requires the use of a specialized mouse port on the back of the PC-III series. The utilities disk was never unsealed, so I get to do that too.
New layout, same problems: PC40-III doesn’t take to installations onto IDE drives that aren’t in its list.
The Commodore PC40-III finally has a keyboard to match!
There is a chorus of 5¼“ floppies singing away in my room.
Jackpot!
My Sound Blaster 1.5 w/ Creative Music System upgrade arrived, and I gave it a test drive in the Commodore PC40-III. My test music of choice? Silpheed, which supports both the YM3812 and SAA-1099 sound chips. Each one has it’s own feel, but the CMS stuff sounds amazing, and I look forward to installing it in the NOS IBM 5170 soon.
Commodore PC40-III
Commodore made IBM compatible machines, believe it or not. This is a later 286-based machine with an IDE hard drive, both 5¼ and 3½ floppy drives, embedded VGA, and 1MB of base RAM in a small form factor. This one has a bad hard drive, but that can be fixed.
Paging @ms-dos5
I still find it strange that Commodore made IBM compatibles... but now that a PS/2 to AT keyboard connector adapter has arrived, I was able to fire up my Commodore PC40-III. It wanted a boot device, so I threw in disk 1 of my MS-DOS 5.0 installation set -- good to know the drive works. Next I need to pick through my spare parts to find a good replacement hard drive to install it onto.