| Component | Standard | Optional |
| Microprocessor | Intel 80386SX/16 | |
| Coprocessor | Socket | Intel 80387SX/16 |
| System board RAM | 1 MB | Expandable to 8 MB |
| BIOS ROM | 64 kB | |
| Video ROM | 32 kB | |
| CMOS RAM | 64 bytes, battery backup | |
| Data storage | Four half-height spaces One 5.25-inch diskette drive | Two 3.5-inch diskette drives One fixed disk drive (Embedded Hard Disk, ESDI, or SCSI HDD); One tape drive |
| Slots | Four 16-bit | |
| Ports | One 15-pin VGA video One 25-pin serial One 9-pin serial One 25-pin, Centronics-compatible parallel | |
| Power input | 115/230 Vac, switchable 50-60 Hz | |
| Power supply | 145 watts | |
| Keyboard | 101-key enhanced IBM PS/2 compatible | 102-key enhanced IBM PS/2 compatible |
| Mouse | Acer Mouse 6720 IBM PS/2 compatible | |
| Operating system | MS-DOS 3.x or 4.x | OS/2, UNIX, XENIX |
| Software | Microsoft Windows/386 GW-BASIC 3.xx SETUP, SYSENV, EMS 4.0 Acer Disk Cache PVGA1 |