8 May
2011
8 May
'11
10:46 a.m.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
"...or 5.25" as they are sometimes called." You mean, by everyone else on
=
Indeed...
I did wonder if the 5.25" refered to the diameter of the magneitc disk
and that the square envelope was larger. However, I have just measured a
5.25" floppy disk with a ruler and the enveleope is 5.25" in each
direction... So what 6" refers to is beyond me.
(OK, you can call me cluelrdd for not knowing the size of the minifloppy
disk, but at least I measurted it rather than making some silly comment...)
the planet, even in metric-based countries?
"This computer has been in my =
family for generations. I inherited the computer from my grandfather and my=
uncle originally purchased it...." Generations? The machine was introduc=
ed in 1981....=20
Whatever this guy's smoking, it's pretty serious stuff. Maybe *that's* wor=
th $65K, for viable cuttings - not that I would know anything about that so=
rt of thing, really -- Ian =20
Not that I am going to bid on it, but I wonder just how 'original' this is...
To me an origianl IBM PC implies a 16K-64K motherboard. And a 63W power
supply
I would also claim that the expansio cards were origianl IBM ones. I
wouldn't object to _ectras_ being third-party, but there should be
enough IBM boards, of the types produced when the machine was made, to
have a working system (that is, video card and floppy controller at
least). But if, for exmaple, an MDA card has been rpelaced at some point
by a Hercules card and the originial IBM MDA card is not included with
the machine then that is not 'original'.
-tony