14 Mar
1999
14 Mar
'99
4:23 p.m.
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Megan wrote:
That machine would have the IBM BIOS upgrade in it--IIRC, the upgrade allowed
640K RAM and XT 10 or 20 MB disks (I once knew a guy who had tubes and tubes of
the originals back when they were worth something--probably a multi-millionaire
by now). It probably also has an upgraded PS as (again, IIRC) the original was
only 63 watts--not enough if the slots were maxed out and a hard disk was added
to the mix. Wow, what a power-user box that would have been in its day.
--
David Wollmann
DST / DST Data Conversion
http://www.ibmhelp.com/
I saw an IBM
5150 today in a thrift store. The odd thing about it was
that it had no disk drives! It only had two black covers over the disk
drive bays. It seems like it came from the factory this way. It is the
first revision of motherboard with the cassette jack, so its conceivable
that it was used with a cassette recorder and was always like this. Does
anyone wish to concur on this? I'm debating if I should get it, but not
for the $20 they have it tagged for.
Interesting... I had a machine in one of the piles at work (I have a
second office, called the 'Annex' where I do hardware hacking for my
group on occasion, and stuff gets dumped there) which I recently
excessed, and it had 'IBM-PC' on it, along with 5150 on one of the
labels... But it had a fair amount of memory in it, and a hard disk
drive in it... Should I have saved it and tried to purchase it from
the company?