[OB] Interested in buying a Omnibook 425 or 430

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The mailman (or woman in this case) came today carrying
a package containing the OB 425 I ordered from Compules.

I have been testing it for the last ten minutes and for a second
hand machine (and I have owned plenty) it is in great condition,
almost like new.

I replaced the 40Mb harddrive with a 64Mb CF card I had
in a desk drawer and the 425 is completly silent. Odd that,
a completly silent computer...

How does one disable the compression? OBmax?




Jean-Yves Pontailler skrev:
> Hi !
>
> The address of Compules was given by Marlous Weldt who bought
> a 430 there before me. We both have to thank her a lot !
>
> When I received the OB425, I installed a CF card (with an adapter)
> in the C drive. If I remember well, the OB does not accept too big
> cards, probably because of some bios limitations. In A and B slots
> the limit seems to be over 252 Mb but below 512 Mb. I have not
> tried in C drive but it is probably similar.
>
> The important point is (in my opinion) to disable the doublespace
> compression that slowers the machine. This was wery useful when
> flash cards were very expensive but is now useless.
> To do this I used OBmax software, provided by Bob (apparently not
> on the list anymore) when he sold me a OB300 (the one that fell
> from a high tower).
>
> Good luck with your brand new machine !
> Jean-Yves