Philips XT with 768K - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

14 Aug 1998

The hard drive or the computer?  If you're talking about the HD, than I
know what you mean.  If you mean the computer, just go to the elementary
school that I used to go to -- They had 30 of 'em.  The one that I have now
(and my other two 1000's) were given to me by my high school -free...
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  From: Don Maslin &lt;donm(a)cts.com&gt;
 To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
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  Subject: Re: Philips XT with 768K
 Date: Thursday, August 13, 1998 1:22 AM
 
 > I also have a neat XT.  It's not a Phillips, but a Tandy 1000.  It has
768K
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  > RAM, and a 12MHz 286 processor.  Only, I still
have the problem of not
 > being able to access the upper memory.  Being a Tandy, it's even harder
to
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  > find a driver.  Another setback is it's HD. 
It's a 20MB Western digital -
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   and slow as a
turtle.  Does anyone, by any chance, have a spare
 XT-compatible IDE HD without a stepper motor driving the heads??                   
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 That may be very hard to find!
 						 - don