18 Mar
2006
18 Mar
'06
9:04 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Undo the 6 screws on the front of the machine (2
rows of 3, pretty obvious when you look at it).
Not if you've never taken off the keyboard before (/me smacks forehead)
Slot 2 is a
full-length slot
Looks like my last remaining Plus Hardcard 20 is going to find a home
(hope it still works). Or, I could try to find an IDE adapter and then
a CF-to-IDE adapter on top of that...
One thing that is worth doing is the 640K mod. Being a
normal XT
motherboard, you can put 41256s in banks 0 and 1, 4164s in banks 2 and 3,
a 74S158 (or 74F158) in the empty DIL socket at the front of the board,
and solder a jumper between pads E1 and E2. Set the DIP swtiches for 256K
(really, all 4 banks used), and you dnn't need any memory expansion cards...
Good to know, thanks! You're always a help.
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