PC Positive 286 computer

A look at the PC Positive 286 computer.

[mattafaak]

PC Positive sounds like a diagnosis you don't want to receive

[jdmcs]

Very nice 286 you have here!
I have an Emerson Matrix 2000 computer, another 286 computer with built-in Trident graphics (might be the same chip). It's not based on the same platform as your PC Positive 286, but still, cool to hear of a similarly spec'ed 286!
And I recently got my other 286, an Emerson 500EC, back together with a QuickShot Sound Machine sound card (a private labeled Sound Blaster I believe) - and I even installed the sockets on that board for the CMS upgrade.

[PixelPipes]

I have an abnormal appreciation for 286 machines and this seems like a really nice one

[shemlesh]

nice, I have an ALT-286 with 4MB of RAM, running Minix 2.0.3. pretty solid workstation. The 286 got such a bad rap despite it basically being a multitasking 8086 with virtual memory, people tend to forget it was released only 7 months after the original IBM PC, and was never designed with backwards compatibility with DOS in mind. If you weren't running DOS apps it was great.

[aaldrich]

I think someone liked this PC and gave it some RAM and an extra HDD. It's a nice machine with all the integrated I/O, especially for a 286. Maybe it wouldn't pull the skin off a pudding but it's still kinda cool and I appreciate it.

[enilenis]

My first PC was a 286. We didn't buy a case, but ended up building one from scratch out of sheet aluminum at a factory. We made it super slim, to sit on top of a VCR. We added a door for a computer mouse also. I wish I still had it. It got sold off in mid 90's, and since it only had a floppy drive, I didn't keep any of my files. I had hand-drawn animations that took me months, but files were too big for diskettes.

[yakovkhalip]

nice ! I have some fast 16-20mhz 286's in my collection - Red Baron I and TEst Drive III are some of my favorite games on a 286 platform)

[Patrick-Bateman]

Oh guy... It's a lovely machine you're showing us here.
The PCB is very special and the red swich is very sexy ♥

[casualretrocollector]

I had that a similar monitor problem and I found when I go into a text based app such as edit and then when you do the auto adjust it should line up perfectly.

[offrails]

I always got "Surfing USA" vibes from the default Test Drive 3 music - it was a fairly advanced game for its time with 3D graphics and an "open world" to drive around (if you didn't mind those constant "Press F6 to return to the road" popups" whenever you went off-road), until you crashed into that cow

[Pickle]

yeah i always use xt-ide with 386 and lower on a network NIC, that would likely solved your hard drive issues
the OPL sounded fine to me, could be a licensed yamaha in the main chip.
but having those simms is nice so you dont have to bother with memory cards.

[BFox]

Can you please share the "Video Adapter Analysys" and "MONITOR v1.01" DOS programs??

P.S. On the sound card, the "MK6264" i suspect to be the OPL clone; and the "MB3120S", the DAC clone. The audio sounds 100% legit OPL.

[JoCrt]

Interesting machine. Hope you can eventually upgrade your camera setup to help with close ups of ICs etc.

[bramvandenbroeck]

LGR did a video about a cd-rom drive from 1989, which is almost the same size as this desktop! So, a cd-rom on a 286, not so weird if you ask me! And i think that this seems to be a late 286, it's very integrated! I started on a 386 but i worked on/with 8080 and 80286 machines before. The fact that you don't need a vga card or peripheral cards is quite amazing!

[retroboby]

Nice video, man! Very advanced 286, with those integrated ide, floppy, 30 pins ram and external battery. And it runs Test Drive 3 pretty decent. I really like this game, but I dont own any 286 or 386. So I try to cripple all my 486s, pentiums I, II to run Test Drive 3 at decent speed. Can you please run a 3dBench 1.0 and tell the score you get with this PCPositive 286, please?

[MotownBatman]

I cant find anything 486 or older.
I would love to find a 12mhz 286 like my first oc, and an AMD-DX4-100 for my Favorite pc