14 Mar
1999
14 Mar
'99
2:21 a.m.
At 11:59 PM 3/13/99 -0800, you wrote:
I saw an IBM 5150 today in a thrift store. The odd thing about it was
that it had no disk drives! It only had two black covers over the disk
drive bays. It seems like it came from the factory this way. It is the
first revision of motherboard with the cassette jack, so its conceivable
that it was used with a cassette recorder and was always like this. Does
anyone wish to concur on this? I'm debating if I should get it, but not
for the $20 they have it tagged for.
Sure 'nuff. The original configuration of the IBM PC had no drives, and 4k
of memory. Diagnostics and a utility or two on Cassette (altho the
cassette player was optional?!?). BASIC in the ROM so it could be
programmed...
Back in the days when a single floppy drive and controller was a (apx. $900
option)
Frighteningly enough... I remember selling quite a few of them in that
(cassette only) configuration.
-jim
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