11 Apr
1998
11 Apr
'98
8:24 p.m.
On 12 Apr 98 at 15:14, Tony Duell wrote:
'The first TRS80' is pretty ambiguous, you
know. For example, what is
'the first IBM-PC' (even if we accept it's a 5150 of some kind)? Any 5-slot
machine? A 5 slot machine with the 16K-64K system board (most had the
later 64K-256K board in them). Can it have disk drives (remember, the
original spec allowed a cassette-only machine). Does it have to have only
IBM expansion cards? Only IBM expansion cards that were in production
when the machine was made? Different people would answere those questions
in different ways.
-tony
Did IBM ever really put out a cassette for the 5150's ? Knowing "Big
Blue"
that must have been a very impressive and expensive tape-mchn. How was this
port accessed ? Does anyone know what " hacks" were done or possible on
this I/O ?
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com