dma@beach.cis.ufl.edu (David Aharoni) (07/08/89)
IBM has been liquidating there supply of 16 Mhz Model 70's and our university
has decided to buy a few of them while the prices were cheap. I've been
installing them and noticed that they seem fairly sluggish. Has anyone else
noticed this on the 16 Mhz Model 70's.
The computers come bundled with software already on the harddrive. The software
includes: MS Window 386, MS Word 4.0, and MS Excel (not sure what version).
The harddrive is also partitioned as one 150 Mb unit with DOS 4.01 installed.
When running Windows, the machines are extremely sluggish even with SmartDrive
installed. Even though Windows is a memory hog, and in my opinion quite
useless It
should work faster on a model 70 than a model 50. I haven't timed the
difference, but the two machines seem to be comprable in speed. I dont know
why these machines are so slow, It's been suggested that the large partition
on the harddrive might be the culprit.
ALSO: has anyone had any problems with the screen display on MS WORD 5.0?
Thanks in advance.
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