26 Oct
2005
26 Oct
'05
6:10 p.m.
Adrian Graham wrote
> 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.
I had a original IBM PC with the 64k motherboard and small power supply. A
friend bought an XT as soon as they came out and it had the 256k
motherboard. I don't think they ever made a 64k XT.
Later I had my BIOS upgraded to install a 20 MB hard drive. (And a power
supply upgrade.) I had to take my computer to an authorized IBM dealer to
get the BIOS swapped. They would not just send you a ROM. Even with an AST 6
Pack I did not have 640kB or RAM because of the 64k motherboard. (But I did
have a cassette interface.)
Michael Holley