12 Aug
2026
12 Aug
'26
3:41 p.m.
Yah, for me it's all about when I went to the U of D, it was the
workhorse machine for papers, etc. and I worked at IBM a little after
that. There were still XT's around then. I always thought they were
a lot better than Commodore and Tandy and all that, then. I didn't
play games as much I guess, but I still had a few games from when they
passed around disks at IBM.
On Wed, Aug 12, 2026 at 6:58 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Wed, 12 Aug 2026, Jim Brain via cctalk wrote:
. . .
a lot of work, and I am trying to decide how
important it is to have
both a 5150 PC and a 5160 XT, since the XT was such a marginal update
to the PC (-cassette, bit newer BIOS, 8 slots instead of 5). The PC
setup I have already has 11 slots combined, an HDD, and full memory,
video, and KB.
Other than leaving out that it has a more powerful 130W, instead of 65,
you summarized the differences
BTW, with trivial mods, you can populate it with 2 rows of 256K + 2 rows
of 64K, to bring it up to the 640K maximum.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com