VINTAGE Compaq Contura 3/25c Part 2

648 views · Published 11 February 2016 · 13:58 · Indexed 18 October 2026

Channel: jaykay18 · 2016 · Howto & Style

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Originally recorded January 17, 2016.

Found an adapter in the Box-O-Junk that would fit the Compaq Contura.  Powered up fine with errors, CMOS battery is completely dead.  Reset settings, powers on and boots up fine.

And it's got a color screen!  Being a 386, someone had attempted to install Windows 85 on the machine but were not successful probably because it only has 4MB of RAM.  It runs Windows 3.1 although displays a Windows 95 Splash Screen.

I had completely forgotten I had installed my clock software on it.  Somewhere, one year, I will find my 2400bps external modem that can connect to its serial port so that it can auto-dial for the time.

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