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

16 Jan 1999

Well, I remember the teacher telling me that he found the computer in his
basement, and just brought it to the school to show the kids how the
computers used to be when you had to program them, and you didn't just stick
in a disk and turn it on.  Apparently, I was the only one (well, there was
one other person) that was interested in it.
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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 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: Anyone have an extra IBM 5155 laying around??

...
 Right... That makes sense....

I still wonder if a cheap clone floppy controller or drive (whichever was
needed) wouldn't have been cheaper/easier than putting a 5150 board in
there. I assume that 5150 came out of a PC, so why didn't he use the
controller or drive from that machine. A full-height drive kludged on
externally would have worked and been a lot nicer than a cassette-based
machine.

Of course fixing the original parts probably wouldn't have been too hard
either, but then a lot of people seem to be frightened by a simple
schematic...

-tony