On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:29:34AM -0800, Fargusson.Alan wrote: > I have seen a few of the Compaq Portables. They seem to be remarkably > well built.
There was a three-foot drop in the production line. THe machine was powered up and running a test program; if it glitched in any way during or after the drop, it failed. > Every once in a while one turns up at various schools I > visit, and most of them still work. They won't run Windows 95, or NT > though. I am not sure if they will run Windows 3.x or not. Only if 3.x will run on an 8088. It wasn't till the Portable 286, a few models down the line, that it had anything beyond the original 8088.
