4 Apr
2003
4 Apr
'03
4:23 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-admin@classiccmp.org]On
Behalf Of John Honniball
Sent: 01 April 2003 19:47
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: IBM 5161
Witchy wrote:
Original one right down to the cassette port and built-in Microsloth
BASIC-80, but it's the later 256K board not the 64K one in the first
version. It's also got a genuine Intel 8088, which is apparently surprising
since most later models used AMD chips. The video card is the colour model
with both CGA (or is it MDA?) and composite out.
Had it in bits yesterday and it's got 512K RAM too - 256K on the board and
256K on a memory expansion card.
A surprise consignment arrived for me this
morning - an IBM
5150 in not bad
condition complete with keyboard/monitor
That's the original IBM PC, yes? What video card do you have? and a 5161
expansion box, spare
expansion card and 2 extender cables.....
Very nice! Well, I have one, but then I'm probably not very
typical! I never
saw one when I did PC and DOS programming back in the 1980s. One
or two clones with external hard disks, but no IBM expansion chassis.
Probably too expensive! I haven't found any sites yet that actually mention
prices for these things, the machine yes, but not the expander.