26 Jun
1998
26 Jun
'98
12:01 a.m.
Hi,
I was wondering if there's a surefire way of telling if an IBM-PC has its
original motherboard, without opening the case. I saw one at the
Salvation Army today and was considering dragging it home (though I
decided to take another machine instead).
The machine did have a cassette port in the back, with a femal DIN
connector. Is this attached to the motherboard?
The machine also had a full complement of cards in its slots, with lots of
ports coming out of it. And a 3.5" drive that was poorly fitted into the
case.
I'm wondering if I should make a trip downtown sometime this weekend, with
the car.
Doug Spence
ds_spenc(a)alcor.concordia.ca
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ds_spenc/
26 Jun
26 Jun
8:04 a.m.
On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Doug Spence wrote:
I was wondering if there's a surefire way of
telling if an IBM-PC has its
original motherboard, without opening the case. I saw one at the
Salvation Army today and was considering dragging it home (though I
decided to take another machine instead).
The machine did have a cassette port in the back, with a femal DIN
connector. Is this attached to the motherboard?
Generally, on the original motherboard there are two DIN connectors: one
for keyboard and one for cassette. I'm not sure if the cassette connector
was present on the 256K motherboard. Something tells me a certain
Englander named Tony Duell either knows this or is reaching up to his
bookshelf to pull down his technical guide to find out for sure.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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1:01 p.m.
At 05:01 AM 6/26/98 -0400, you wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if there's a surefire way of telling if an IBM-PC has its
original motherboard, without opening the case.
The BIOS version and date should tell you. I think I remember reading
that IBM was very consistant about changing the BIOS version and date when
they made changes. I don't have anything handy that lists all the dates
and numbers though.
Joe
1:29 p.m.
Hi,
I was wondering if there's a surefire way of telling if an IBM-PC has its
original motherboard, without opening the case. I saw one at the
Salvation Army today and was considering dragging it home (though I
decided to take another machine instead).
The machine did have a cassette port in the back, with a femal DIN
connector. Is this attached to the motherboard?
The machine also had a full complement of cards in its slots, with lots of
ports coming out of it. And a 3.5" drive that was poorly fitted into the
case.
I'm wondering if I should make a trip downtown sometime this weekend, with
the car.
Doug Spence
ds_spenc(a)alcor.concordia.ca
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ds_spenc/
I would grab it if the price is $5 or $10. It's undoubtably a 5150 which are
common enough but it may have cards that are no longer available. I usually
carry a screwdriver , pliers and 360 and 720 disks with DOS 3.2 with me
when I'm outing to the goodwill or yard sales, and then I can check out the
innards if the owners don't freak. If there's an interesting card I'll buy
it.
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com
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