This is an early internal document from 1986 for the original Compaq Deskpro 386/16. The Compaq Deskpro 386/16 was released in September 1986 and was the first commercially available PC with the Intel 80386 Processor beating IBM to the punch.
This document is a printed version of the early design specification. It is single sided sheets loose bound in a wire cover.
It is about 1" thick.
General Contents:
- Block Diagrams
- Detailed Circuit Schematics of the System board and the Main Memory Board
- Timing Diagrams
- PAL Logic Descriptions for bus signals
- List of Materials and components used
- About 66 pages for detailed Descriptions of the computer
- Design Assumptions
- Differences between processors
- Hardware Differences from the IBM PC AT
- Incompatibilities between the Deskpro 286
- Detailed descriptions of the design of the varous systems in the PC
This doesn't contain ROM Listings.
This is a very interesting piece of history and window into what was going on within Compaq in the early days as they were working hard to beat IBM to the market with a product with the 80836.
There are two scans of the same original document (with different scanner settings) to best capture the faded parts of this 37 year old document (at scanning time). Some pictures are also taken of the most faded or edge-printed pages.