On 2026-08-12 4:58 p.m., Fred Cisin via cctalk 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.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred [email protected]
Are there any generic machines or modern rebuilds (static ram) to
replace a 86 and a 386 for those that
still need a machine for vintage I/O cards? Your typical US Nuclear
power plant comes to mind.
PS. Avoid any surplus PDP's that glow in the dark.:)
PPS. Did they have problems when a PDP-5's ran power plants?
