31 May
2007
31 May
'07
2:57 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
Interesting. I take it that didn't include schematics for the FDC board, MDA /
CGA board etc. though, and was just for the system board?
I can't imagine it'd be very readable at that sort of size if it included all
the 'extras' which turn a bare-bones system into a useful machine (joking
aside about how useful the XT ever was :-)
(I was looking
at schematics for Acorn's Risc PC the other day for someone; if
put onto one sheet of paper it'd be around 5ft x 7ft in size - and as a lot
of the functionality is provided by custom chips, schematic-wise it's not even
*that* complex compared to a lot of systems)
Dave Thompson (Microcornucopia magazine) took the XT schematics and
combined them into a 24" x 36" ? poster. It was quite handy