Yah, for me it's all about when I went to the U of D, it was the workhorse machine for papers, etc. and I worked at IBM a little after that. There were still XT's around then. I always thought they were a lot better than Commodore and Tandy and all that, then. I didn't play games as much I guess, but I still had a few games from when they passed around disks at IBM.
On Wed, Aug 12, 2026 at 6:58 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Aug 2026, Jim Brain via cctalk wrote: > . . . > > a lot of work, and I am trying to decide how important it is to have > > both a 5150 PC and a 5160 XT, since the XT was such a marginal update > > to the PC (-cassette, bit newer BIOS, 8 slots instead of 5). The PC > > setup I have already has 11 slots combined, an HDD, and full memory, > > video, and KB. > > Other than leaving out that it has a more powerful 130W, instead of 65, > you summarized the differences > > BTW, with trivial mods, you can populate it with 2 rows of 256K + 2 rows > of 64K, to bring it up to the 640K maximum. > > -- > Grumpy Ol' Fred [email protected]
