Subj : Re: Wanted Program...
To   : Gamgee
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Dec 19 2025 10:35 am

 Re: Re: Wanted Program...
 By: Gamgee to Atreyu on Fri Dec 19 2025 11:09 am

At>> I hear the floppy drive seek to track-zero and hard disk slowly whirring
At>> up.

> Do you see the bright glow of the "Turbo" LED lit up on the front of the
> beige-colored case?

Compaq seemed like they wanted to differ from IBM for difference's sake. IBM standardized on "one beep OK, two beep NO" with their BIOSes. You hear two beeps, you know something's wrong.

Compaq did the opposite, and any time one of the Compaqs booted up, the two beeps would damage my calm.

We did get rid of the Compaqs and go all IBM PS/2, I ended up taking home a Compaq Portable II, the green screen model, with a 20 megabyte "brick on a stick" ISA hard drive.
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