IBM Portable Personal Computer - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

27 Jan 1998

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  Slot 8 on an XT 
 is strange, and the card put in it needs to assert one of the pins (I 
 think it's B8) during a read cycle. Just about the only card that does 
 this is the IBM Async card  
Um. My references tell me that the PC (thus, slot 5, nearest the P/S) is
peculiar, but nothing is strange with XT slot 8 -- at least, according to
my references.

FWIW, I've run a variety of cards in XT slot 8 and PC slot 5 with no
problems.

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