31 Jul
2013
31 Jul
'13
12:21 p.m.
Hello!
Is there s/o owning a 16kb variant of the 5150 or s/o who's seen it in
the wild? The first motherboard of the 5150 is often referred to as
the 16/64kb board. Was the 16kb variant of the 5150 without the fdd's
probably a configuration never released or was ist only very uncommon?
And if it was released: was it officially shiped to europe?
Please do not refer to wikipedia or collector sites only stating it
exists. I know that it is often mentioned, but I couldn't find any
pictures. I think this variant exists, but there are so many myth on
historic computer hardware out there.
My IBM PC TechRef (for the 5150), which is a fairly late edition,
contains schematics for the 16-64K systme board alony with those for the
64K-256K board. This certainly suggests the former board existed and was
shipped.
Whether a machine was shipped with only one row of 16K DRAMs installed
and with no FDC card I do not know. Certainly it would work like that.
-tony