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Clean-room engineering a compatible BIOS? Reverse-engineering the unknown bits of hardware? Troubleshooting compatibility bugs in common software packages and
by marshray 4y ago
Clean-room engineering a compatible BIOS?
Reverse-engineering the unknown bits of hardware?
Troubleshooting compatibility bugs in common software packages and fixing them in hardware?
Putting a PC into a luggable case with a small display and carry handle?
All that was exciting engineering!
- aidenn0 4y agoHaCF did spice the engineering up from reality by using an LCD screen instead of a CRT. I don't think contemporary LCDs were up to the task, but I could be wrong. Luggable microcomputers were not new at this point, both Osborne and Kaypro had z80 CP/M systems that were luggable. Compaq definitely had the most compatible BIOS until Phoenix released theirs for OEMs to use (AMI was probably more popular in the 80s, but was a relative late-comer).