12 May
2010
12 May
'10
12:13 p.m.
when you are trying to revive an IBM 5150, that :
- you do not have a single AT powersupply in the house, just 20 ATX PS
An AT supply isn't a good fit in a 5150 case. Look for a PC or XT supply.
XT supplies have enough power for "medium" size MFM drives.
- do not have a single PC compatible keyboard, but 10
AT & 10 PS2 keyboards
- at least 50% of your MFM drives have passed away in their sleep.
The 5150 didn't originally have a "fixed" (veterinary context?) disk.
- you don't remember which is the last DOS version
that runs on a standard 5150
For reviving the machine, any will do.
1.10 or above for double sided drives
2.00 or above if you want 9SPT, subdirectories, hard drive, etc.
2.10 or above if you have a lot of non-standard hardware
(2.11 is MS-DOS only, and often already has weird add-ins)
3.00 or above if you want 1.2M (HD floppy controller
3.10 or above if you want a CDROM with MSCDEX, etc.
3.20 or above if you want built-in support of 720K
3.30 or above if you want support of 1.4M (HD floppy controller!)
3.31 or above if you want a drive larger than 32M
6.00 or above if you want built-in support for compression
Time to grow up I guess.