IBM PC 5150 with no drives? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

14 May 1999

I don't think that the card was marketed directly for the PC, but for 8088's
with a free expansion slot in general.

It probably came out in the late 80's (maybe even early 90's), for people
wanting to upgrade their XT's to something more up-to-date, without buying a
whole new computer.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Marvin &lt;marvin(a)rain.org&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Sunday, March 14, 1999 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: IBM PC 5150 with no drives?

...
 Jason Willgruber wrote:
>
> The other two options could have been a number of things, such as a
> HD/floppy controller, a clock/battery, and
>
> I remember even seeing one that plugged into an expansion slot and the
> 8088/8087 sockets. It had a parallel, serial, VGA video (on a separate
> backplate - so the thing actually took up two slots), high-density floppy,
...
 > IDE HD, clock/battery, and 4 30-pin SIMM sockets. 
I wish I could find one
...
   of those cards
- or find out who made them. 
Any card that used VGA would come along several years later after the PC was
...
 introduced (can't remember off hand what year VGA
was first introduced.)
Interesting comment about an IDE controller and the SIMM sockets for the PC;
...
 I have only heard rumors that an IDE controller was
built for the PC, and I
have only seen SIMM expansion boards for the 16 bit bus.