Models 50 and 50Z (50Z pictured)

50z currently has the following:

• Kingston 386 SX Now! upgrade at 20MHz
• 8514/a adapter with 1.5MB RAM upgrade installed
• 8515 Monitor
• 8MB RAM (2 on planar, the rest on a 0-8MB (?) adapter)
• Windows 3.11 and MS-DOS 6.22
• Dual 1 1.44MB Floppies (I prefer dual drives, probably because that's what my first computer had)
• IBM ESDI adapter with a 60MB drive

You can't really see it, but the 8514/A video adapter is a nice improvement over the base VGA. Though it uses a rather low scan rate, with the right monitor (an 8514 or my favorite the 8515) it's a very, very good display. In addition to that, how many 286-based computers have you seen do 1024x768 video with 256 colors?

At present I have not done too much with this computer. It is the lone computer on my network to be running the MS-DOS client and server network software...a project that I helped Christian Hansen with. You can see the page that he made here. It's an interesting read.

The Model 50 (no Z) is still a work in progress. I've replaced the hard disk with a 170MB drive on an Arco IDE controller. I've also cleaned the machine up. I don't know what I'll do with it yet. Potential plans could involve installation of an AOX MicroMaster 386 CPU upgrade card.