27 Oct
2005
27 Oct
'05
12:13 p.m.
At 01:52 AM 10/27/05 +0100, you wrote:
Well besides being HUGE and the fact that it didn't support all of the
It is, of course, the same size as the PC or XT system cabinet, and can
stack on top of it.
Mine was
for the PC, not the XT; but even with 256K on the mobo, it wasn't
the memory that made me ditch the thing. It was the FIVE EXPANSION SLOTS!
And what is wrong with the 5161 expansion cabinet? cards, it costs $2585! (with a hard drive) That's
almost three times what
From what I remmember, you can't put video cards in
the expansion
cabinet, and if you want to put memory in it, you have to set DIP
switches on one of the expansion unit cards to set the address boundary
between memory in the system unit and memory in the expansion cabinet
(that implies, of course, that memory from 0 to some address is in the
system unit, memory above that address is in the expansion cabinet). I am
not aware of any problems with any pure I/O port cards going in the
expansion cabinent.
I paid for my first XT clone! FWIW I've only
seen one of the things. They
must not have sold many of them.
They are fairly rare, but I hae at least 2, and maybe 3.
-tony