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by farrelle25 839 days ago
Ah I knew I shouldn't have said 'IBM PC 386'...! :-O

It was an "Epson Equity 386SX" which - as you say - is my uninformed shorthand for 'a 386-based PC compatible' (actually maybe it was only 286-based anyway?!)

https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/epson-equity-386sx-16...

ps: I was a mainframe PL/1 programmer at the time so plead ignorance on all things PC-based... (!)

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Ah, yeah, fair dos.

I remember the Epson Equity range. I supported quite a lot of the original 8086 and 80286 ones. Cute little PCs, which was unusual back then -- most big name vendors went with big wide, or fat or tall, cases to look impressive for the money.