Well, you would have had to change the crystal as well.

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by a6l6e6x

12/6/01 3:04:09 PM

Well, you would have had to change the crystal as well.

That's the kind of thing IBM made impossible in later machines. The power on diagnostics in the BIOS did a timimg run and would refuse to proceed is the speed was beyond the spec. That was to ensure IBM PC reliability, of course, and had nothing whatsoever to do with the availability of faster machines from IBM.

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Well, you would have had to change the crystal as well. - (a6l6e6x) - Dec. 6, 2001, 03:04:09 PM EST

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