Anyone have an extra IBM 5155 laying around?? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

16 Jan 1999

My teacher had replaced the XT motherboard with a 5150 board when the HD and
floppies quit, so that ROM BASIC could be used with the cassette port.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Duell &lt;ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Saturday, January 16, 1999 9:22 AM
Subject: Re: Anyone have an extra IBM 5155 laying around??

...
 > I'm not necessarily concerned about
originally, just as long as the monitor,
...
 > P/S, and keyboard work, and it's in fairly
good condition ( I have a bunch
...
 > of parts).  I'm basically looking for it for
sentimental value, since a 5155
...
 > was the first IBM-compatible computer that I used.
 It was in the elementary
...
 > school that I went to, and neither the floppies or
HD worked, so all it ran
...
   was ROM BASIC,
and saved the programs on cassette.  Since I had an old 
This bothers me. The 5155 (I have one, although not up for grabs) uses an
XT motherboard, and AFAIK it never had a cassette port. Yes, there was
ROM basic, but no way to save from it. The only way you could have used a
cassette would be if somebody had designed an expansion card that grabbed
INT15 (I think) and implemented the cassette port. If that card ever
existed, then I want one!

There never was an official IBM hard disk, but plenty of people put a
short-length controller card in the machine together with a half-height
hard drive.

-tony