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

18 Aug 1998

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  From: Kees Stravers &lt;pb0aia(a)iaehv.nl&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: Monday, August 17, 1998 7:22 PM

 Those hard disks were very slow, and noisy too. They also suffer from
 sudden head stiction. You are lucky it is a Western Digital. 
 Older machines had Miniscribe hard disks which were worse.
  I've found that out.  A 10MB MiniScribe that I in a Tandy 1000 (no suffix)
sounded like a weed whacker and started to smoke when it finally went bad.

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  You can switch off the XT-IDE hard disk port with
switch 8 of the
 DIP switches in the Philips XT and install a regular MFM disk controller
 and hard disk in the machine. Works like in any other XT.

 Kees

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