IBM 5160 saved from the trash.

I recently found an IBM 5160 in the trash, it has no keyboard (but I have a spare). It's almost all original! It has 256K on the motherboard, an AST Clock/Serial/384K RAM board (I think it has a game port too). It has the 6845 full length Black & White/Parallel board, a Hayes full length 1200B modem card (Z8 processor), a Xebec hard drive interface card, an internal/external floppy card, the 360K floppy and a Seagate ST-412 (Noisy). I'll try to recover the data off the hard disk, I have no idea how I'm going to deal with the drive issue (I may have an 8 bit IDE card and small drive). I am really tempted to put CP/M-86 on here. I've never used that OS before and it would be more interesting than PC-DOS 2.0/2.11. I haven't completed a full check out of the machine yet but I have enough spare boards that I should be able to bring this up. I even have a spare IBM PC (not XT) MB w/cassette interface. :-) -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry(a)home.net http://members.home.net/ncherry (Text only) http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/lightsey/52 (Graphics) http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ (SourceForge)