4 Apr
2003
4 Apr
'03
4:26 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-admin@classiccmp.org]On
Behalf Of Tony Duell
Sent: 01 April 2003 23:57
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: IBM 5161
I am told they're fairly rare -- I've got a couple of them though.
There's info on it in the Options and Adapters TechRef volume 1
The two things I didn't get were a bundle of books and a bundle of disks.
The hard drive in the expander has PC-DOS on it, REXX (not sure what that
is, but it says IBM Internal when I start it), the Zork trilogy and KA9Q
with other networking gubbins
system, and you have to set the DIP switches on the
extender card to
indicate how much (if any) RAM is in the expansion unit rather than the
main system. Standard I/O cards can go in the expansion unit without
problems thougk
Ah, that's what the DIP switches do.....
Reading some websites yesterday there was also a bug in early versions of
the BIOS that meant certain slots in the expander couldn't be used at
particular ROM addresses, which must've made installing new cards a fun task
if you didn't know that :)
cheers
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