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Dolch PAC 586
A nice Dolch PAC 586 found and saved by Bakedprawns.
Published January 2, 2022
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Found and Saved. Tucked away in an office at work ready for the skip! […] I work for a large telecoms company in England. After some research I think this was used as some kind of industrial network troubleshooting machine – Bakedprawns.
More photos in the original post.
Specs and some more info in this pdf (page 13-14).
The Dolch PAC is an ideal portable platform for a myriad of new desktop business communication applications. Industry leading performance, and an abundance of open slots and system resources offer an uncompromising environment for portable video teleconferencing, video editing, and multimedia presentation. Graphics intensive applications are well served with a choice of dazzling active matrix TFT displays – VGA, SVGA and XGA (source).
Published on Sun 2nd Jan 2022. Featured in KBD #59 (source).
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