Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 8/8/2006 at 1:29 PM Fred Cisin wrote:
This is getting a little too close to politics.
Yes, I apologize and shall endeavor to restrain myself.
To get this back on track, the BBC narrator talked about the "clicking 5150
and its single diskette drive and 16K of memory".
That's interesting - the BBC were just asking if we had a 5150 that they could
borrow.
They didn't say why they specifically wanted a 5150 rather than a far more
easily-obtainable 5160, though; I can't imagine any TV company needing such a
level of detail that one wouldn't do above the other - particularly as to Joe
Public 'original PC' tends to mean 'XT'. I can only assume they need to
focus
on the cassette port for some reason. Curious.
Okay, I've seen 16K
5150s sold, but not with a floppy drive as a standard configuration. Were
any 16K one-floppy systems sold as a standard (not bootleg) configuration?
Do you mean that all the 5150's sold with floppy drives were 64KB variants?
(That's what I have - but I have no idea what was typical)
cheers
Jules