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> But what newbies will bever know the heck of: dip switch settings for IRQ for modems.

And dip switches to set hard drives to primary/secondary. Get that wrong and your machine didn’t boot.



And making sure ATM0(?) was sent so that the modem was quiet...


those were jumpers :)




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