*EXTREMELY* good questions, Judith !
Please let us some time/patience to look up this'n'that, and reflect
upon answers.
Some of the easy, immediate:
You can move any floppies (drives that is) without any problem.
You can *not* use an XT(HD) drive without its controller (card);
and you cannot use 2 controllers (cards that is) at the same time
in a '286(+) in the ISA slots of that AT at the same time.
It depends on the card slots you have there in the '486 for what you
can put in there: if you have a lot of ISA slots (long, black rows)
you can use them for all kinds of plug-in cards.
You can move the XT's HD to a '486 with the appropriate controller:
i.e. if it's a MFM or RLL controller. (But then you cannot use the
more 'advanced', but less performing, IDE controller on that '486)
But it wouldn't make much sense - keep the XT functional to read/write
(and format!) 360 KB diskettes.
(HD diskette drives can read 360 K diskettes but do not format them
well enough)
It *does* make sense to keep a '286 intact (and even upgade it to some
degree: different floppies to access archives, serial/parallel ports
for linking to other machines).
It *would* make sense to install the 40-MB-Seagates into the '286, at
least one, if not both of them.
(give at least the type no. to look up in a list, for heads/cyl.s etc)
Memory chips are a difficult issue: one has to know what seats they
have (no. of pins), and what other characteristics. Besit to leave the
'286 mem-chip in the '286 and use it ther (or a RAM-disk for instance).
ANY kind/speed of CD-ROM would do for the purpose - even the "slowest"
available/existent: speed plays only a role with audio or video, not
with (program, text) data.
--- the rest needs somewhat more looking-up, and and perhaps more
recision on what you need/want. But I'msure you'll get flooded with
good suggestions.
Heimo Claasen / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / Brussels 1999-04-12
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