14 Mar
1999
14 Mar
'99
2:10 p.m.
I saw an IBM 5150 today in a thrift store. The odd
thing about it was
that it had no disk drives! It only had two black covers over the disk
drive bays. It seems like it came from the factory this way. It is the
first revision of motherboard with the cassette jack, so its conceivable
that it was used with a cassette recorder and was always like this. Does
anyone wish to concur on this? I'm debating if I should get it, but not
for the $20 they have it tagged for.
Interesting... I had a machine in one of the piles at work (I have a
second office, called the 'Annex' where I do hardware hacking for my
group on occasion, and stuff gets dumped there) which I recently
excessed, and it had 'IBM-PC' on it, along with 5150 on one of the
labels... But it had a fair amount of memory in it, and a hard disk
drive in it... Should I have saved it and tried to purchase it from
the company?
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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