Maurice Butler wrote:
Hi,
Orginal ibm pc had floppy disk 64meg ram optional cassette drive 82
keyboard,
XT bios change, harddisk 10 ro 20mb?
AT bios change to 286 processor, second interrupt controller, RTC, hard
disk, new keyboard, colour option
From memory (I have lost my IBM hardware manual with the bios listings)
Maurice
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Packer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 15 August 2006 11:28 p.m.
To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz
Subject: Re: Desktops through the ages
On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 15:33 +1200, Peter Glassenbury (CSSE) wrote:
Nick Rout wrote:
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:39:39 +1200
Peter Glassenbury (CSSE) wrote:
If anyone knows where to get an IBM PC, I would be very interested
for our museum (at the University) Seems we missed out when getting
started as most people have thrown them away
I think I have an XT or AT in storage, but I think that was a little
later. I got it from a friend a few years ago for the 5 1/2 inch
floppy drive which i needed in order to access one or two disks of a
very old software product. You are welcome to it anyway.
We have the AT (which was the 286)... It was the XT (I think)
<snip>
The XT was a successor to the original IBM PC. It still had an 8088
processor, but the power supply had been beefed up (to 200? watts from the
original PC's 65 watts), the keyboard layout changed, and there may have
been some other tweaks.
=====Andrew
Hi, I got a XT tucked away somewhere. Last time I fired it up for
interests sake
was to see how it handled y2k - it did to my surprise. DOS 3.3. From
memory were'nt these 640 kb with an extension to 1 meg?? or am I
thinking of something earlier?
Also tucked away in a drawer is a Dick Smith VZ200 - save progs/data
to your radio cassette player and hope you can retrieve it later, and
grab the tv for a monitor while the wife is out! Still got books for it
inc memory map. 4k basic built in. I even managed to load 2 progs into
memory after loading some machine code and could swap between them with
a hot key!
Barry
