cpmisalive (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

It is an ISA machine, made in 1987, the original vintage 386 PC, in tasteful green...Yes, it weighs an absolute ton, even more so with the two additional base units containing full height 5.25" ESDI "shoe-box" drives. The base has a 5.25" floppy, a 3.5" floppy, a tape streamer and a CD-ROM drive, so you need at least two boxes to get it to boot up!I've got my old Deskpro 386s/20 here, hence the video on my profile. Its damn slow compared to the big box 386.

jrocco36 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Is that Deskpro 386/25 a "Deskpro L"? (somthing like 386/25L) When I hear Compaq 386 and ESDI I think of the L's. They where a moose. We would get them in Some where 386's some where low end 486's all with EISA bus and half size 340mb ESDI drives. What tanks. must have been 50lbs each. hated moving them but loved working on them. Haven't seen one for about 10 years now. Ah the good old Computer days. its a shame computers have become so throw away these days.

cpmisalive (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The Q-Vision monitor is a rebadged 17" Zenith, 30kg... I have a 14" flat screen Zenith with my first PC, a DeskPro 386/25, that too, is buried in my Father's loft. It still has the original invoice, a 4 Meg base unit, tape drive, ESDI accelerator, pro graphics card, 3x4MB 32bit expansion cards and other bits, cost over £20,000 !!! I also have an ex-hospital SystemPro twin 486/33 and a Portable/386 all were heading for skip, but Dad thought I'd like to play with them, never got around to it...

jrocco36 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Was that one of Compaq's two ton monitors? they had great looking pictures but they where very heavy. Most of the "Deskpro" series where used as a office desktop computer system, Much like the IBM 300 series. Seems they where built better then the home computers like the Prolinea/Presairo for the Compaqs and the PS-1 Aptiva/ValuePoint for IBM.I noticed that when HP took over Compaq that the HP's where just rebadged Compaqs.BTW My Deskpro "M" still has Doom on it. :o)

cpmisalive (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

My Father gave me his old PC years ago, a Compaq DeskPro 66/m - wow, it is of a build quality one can only dream about now... It was upgraded with a Pentium processor and a better graphics card, but the thing I remember is the Q-Vision monitor, completely flat 17" with a gorgeous picture. The machine also has a pair of original 1993 vintage Barracudas. I guess there's Win95 on it, I used to play Doom and Quake on it! Shame Compaq went all cheap and nasty, but its a numbers game nowadays.

elhaya (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

i love the part when he says: "Performance, that's what I like" xDIt will be really awesome if you could post a video showing the computer itself (assuming you still own it)

jrocco36 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

It really was. the compaq EISA's where very fast for 386,486 and low end penitums. If you put UNIX on them they came alive. I learned SCO Openserver On this very computer. At one time I had 3 complete running M's with Windows,UNIX and Redhat.

elhaya (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

what a fun way to learn about your computer. compaq used to be great until hp acquired it...

jrocco36 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

These PC's where my favorite from that Pre-Windows 9x and HP/Compaq era.I got this from an old Compaq Deskpro 433/M. Years ago I had to dispose hundreds of them because they where not Y2K(ARGH). I still have one left with the demo on it. I upgraded it with a Pentium Overdrive 83mhz with Windows 3.11 and DOS 6.22 on it and works OK even still today. I keep it for the fun of it.

Loki8901 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

were did you find this ad?