13 Feb
2006
13 Feb
'06
3:29 p.m.
On 2/13/2006 at 2:50 PM Fred Cisin wrote:
An ability to add an extra ROM chip is handy.
You COULD edit your existing BIOS, and burn a new ROM.
In the 5150, there was room for 48K of ROMs, with 40K being used. There
were a few aftermarket add-on ROMs.
An extra board with ROM(s) would be handy.
But, if you can manage to boot an OS with the existing hardware, it is
trivial to write a TSR that can augment or supplant part or all of the
ROM(s)
What wasn't clear is if this was a 386 with an onboard hard disk
controller. If not, I'd simply try to find a controller with its own BIOS
and save a slot.
Cheers,
Chuck