26 Oct
2005
26 Oct
'05
1:34 p.m.
At 04:36 PM 10/26/05 -0700, you wrote:
Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
I would be interested in seeing a list of the variations of the PC (with
/ without tape interface) and the XT
as well as the AT. the things I'm interested in is memory config (which
type chips) number of ISA slots,
and the on board varations such as having or omitting the tape interface
present on the original PC. (those
sort of variants).
Get a copy of Upgrading and Repairing PCs by Mueller. It has all those
details plus things like BIOS versions and dates, part numbers for all the
cards, details on the various power supplies, etc. It's still in
publication but I doubt the new editions still have all the details for the
PC, XTs and ATs. I found a first edition in a surplus store last week and
it gives loads of details about the early PCs. Check the used book stores,
libraries, E-bay, etc and you should be able to find an early edition
without too much trouble.
Joe
I'd have thought this was worth saving if it's related to the 5150
XT, or at
least it is to me. I'm trying and failing miserably to find an XT
with a 64K
motherboard, purely because I guess people upgraded them as soon as they
could afford to.
Would there be any way to reliably estmate the percentage of XT's that
were upgraded with Sixpack (or similar) cards?
Peace... Sridhar
I may have a motherboard in the heap somewhere with 5 slots, and 64K but
I don't recall seeing an
8 slot (XT) board with only 64 k. I have seen two variants of memory
types on both the XT and AT,
as far as the chips. The AT of course had the silly stacked memory
chips, initially.
jim