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First post, by Ekb

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From Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXsPmmgV9D8

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From: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1721579M/The_486_book

Last edited by Ekb on 2016-06-20, 09:56. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 1 of 11, by Stiletto

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I suspect it isn't actually "their" PCINFO program, so you'll need to look at the many utilities out there named PCINFO (or PC-INFO). And my guess would be shareware.

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Reply 4 of 11, by Ozzuneoj

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I managed to find two other programs called PC Info from these two sites, but they are all very basic and don't look anything like what you're looking for.

http://www.pcorner.com/list/DIAGS/PCINFO.ZIP/PC-INFO.DOC/
http://www.retroarchive.org/garbo/pc/miscutil/index.html

Maybe if you can get a copy of the book from amazon or ebay the book itself will provide more information about the program?

EDIT: Well... the book may not be any help either, because I found this:
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3547518W/The_486_book

And with a free account I can look through the whole book and the section about the companion disk only mentions "SYSINFO" which looks like a different program as well, even though the cover mentions "PCINFO".

My Google-Foo is not good enough for this one!

Now for some blitting from the back buffer.

Reply 5 of 11, by tayyare

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I have an Abacus book (Upgrading and Maintaining your PC, from 1993 or so) came with a utility floppy. I'll check and return back to you. I still have the exact contents, but I'm not sure if it came with a program called PCINFO. In anyways, I can send you the floppy contents.

GA-6VTXE PIII 1.4+512MB
Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB
Diamond Monster 3D 12MB SLI
SB AWE64 PNP+32MB
120GB IDE Samsung/80GB IDE Seagate/146GB SCSI Compaq/73GB SCSI IBM
Adaptec AHA29160
3com 3C905B-TX
Gotek+CF Reader
MSDOS 6.22+Win 3.11/95 OSR2.1/98SE/ME/2000

Reply 7 of 11, by tayyare

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Please check your private messages.

GA-6VTXE PIII 1.4+512MB
Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB
Diamond Monster 3D 12MB SLI
SB AWE64 PNP+32MB
120GB IDE Samsung/80GB IDE Seagate/146GB SCSI Compaq/73GB SCSI IBM
Adaptec AHA29160
3com 3C905B-TX
Gotek+CF Reader
MSDOS 6.22+Win 3.11/95 OSR2.1/98SE/ME/2000

Reply 10 of 11, by tayyare

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Ozzuneoj wrote:

Just because I'm curious, would it be possible to have this uploaded somewhere just in case others are looking for it?

I can attach it here, but I have not much idea if it will be proper considering forum rules.

GA-6VTXE PIII 1.4+512MB
Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB
Diamond Monster 3D 12MB SLI
SB AWE64 PNP+32MB
120GB IDE Samsung/80GB IDE Seagate/146GB SCSI Compaq/73GB SCSI IBM
Adaptec AHA29160
3com 3C905B-TX
Gotek+CF Reader
MSDOS 6.22+Win 3.11/95 OSR2.1/98SE/ME/2000

Reply 11 of 11, by Ozzuneoj

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tayyare wrote:
Ozzuneoj wrote:

Just because I'm curious, would it be possible to have this uploaded somewhere just in case others are looking for it?

I can attach it here, but I have not much idea if it will be proper considering forum rules.

That's true. I doubt anyone associated with the program still cares about it since it is seemingly not available anywhere anymore, but something like this should be left to a moderator to decide. The site does host a lot of old hard to find files though.

Now for some blitting from the back buffer.