The UK postal service doesn't have to turn a profit, nor pay special pension plans like in the US. To be honest Republicans here want to destroy the USPS so they can sell the most profitable parts to friends and ditch the rest. There will be small cities all around the middle US that will not get …

Fastest 286 I have is a 16 or 20 (could be a 20 running at 16 because of board limitations).

People purchased PCs in the 80's because they were using them for work at home. Not many people were willing to spend $1000+ for a DOS gaming machine, but they would play some games when work was done for the day.

Is it faster then a 386sx/16?

Shipping from China to the US is pretty fast as well. It has to be government subsidized along with the fact that there is a tsunami of stuff coming here from China every day.

Years ago you could surface ship stuff from the US to Canada or Mexico, now it is all done by air and that is pricey (so is the cost of fuel). I think USPS is making money on packages, its mail delivery that they lose money on.

The mac was a big player in video editing (one area I collect) early on after the Mac II line with Nubus came out. Sure it was expensive for a home computer but cheap as hell compared to what was the norm at the time (the original video editing systems were $100K+ and a pain to use). The Amiga was …

Would it be good for an Amiga emu setup?

Everyone I knew at the time (including myself) jumped from the C64/C128 directly to x86 PCs. The Amiga wasn't popular because they were pricey when they first came out (for home use) and lacked apps (for business use). You also have the fact that while they were groundbreaking when introduced they …

I think you can only address 16MB on a 286 system.

DOS 6.22 is what most people ended up using just because of the built in memory manager, but I tended to like QEMM better (still using DOS 6.22, but it works with 5.0 as well).

CDROMS connected to the sound card need drivers to work (not bootable). A 486 won't know what to do with a 20GB IDE HD let alone fat32 (DOS uses FAT16, 2GB partitions max).

You don't have too many high end AGP boards you can run a Voodoo 5 in because of the voltage issue. When I purchased my 5500 AGP new I was running a new P3-733 system. While a faster CPU should speed up gaming with that card there must be a limit somewhere.

I love Sony Trinitrons. Still using a 17" SF II a 15" SF and have a 19" 420GS in the garage that needs repairs. There were also quite a few other models that used SONY tubes made by different manufacturers and Diamondtron tubes made by Mitsubishi after the patents expired. You can run all kinds of …

Well either somebody who has the same board and can dump the ROM or somebody who has the archives (I have the ROMs for a slightly different board so they must exist somewhere).

I just snagged a MAE486-33, anybody have a link for the BIOS?