f@alliant.UUCP (Bill Freeman) (12/30/86)
As I was wondering through a local computer store one lunch time, I noticed a poor deserted clone labled "Don't work, don't know why, no manuals, $200. The cover was loose so I looked inside. It had a CGA clone and a multifunction card, two half highs, keyboard..., everyting but a monitor, so I took a chance. When I had time to look at it, it was easy to see that someone had munged the slot the CGA clone was plugged into, and pins were leaning against one another. Straightening the pins and avoiding the slot fixed it, so I got a pretty good deal. I managed to figure out which dipswitch has the options byte info, and that is pretty standard, but there are two other switch dips, and I'd like to know what they do. For example do some of them let me change out the two rows of 64k RAMs that are socketed, putting in 256k parts, going from 256k total to 640k total (two rows of 64k parts are soldered). I would appreciate any info anyone has about this beast. I even get a kick out of reading schematics. It is made by Multitech, labled Micro Professor on the front and model MPF-PC on the back. Also, if anyone knows about how to extract the time from the battery clock on a Compeq (yes, that's spelled with an E) multifunction card, and/or what the two sets of dipswitches on it are for, that would make it much more useful. Thanks. Bill Freeman, KE1G