On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 15:33 +1200, Peter Glassenbury (CSSE) wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:39:39 +1200 > > Peter Glassenbury (CSSE) wrote: > > > >> If anyone knows where to get an IBM PC, I would be very interested > >> for our museum (at the University) Seems we missed out when getting > >> started as most people have thrown them away > > > > I think I have an XT or AT in storage, but I think that was a little > > later. I got it from a friend a few years ago for the 5 1/2 inch floppy > > drive which i needed in order to access one or two disks of a very old > > software product. You are welcome to it anyway. > > We have the AT (which was the 286)... It was the XT (I think)
<snip> The XT was a successor to the original IBM PC. It still had an 8088 processor, but the power supply had been beefed up (to 200? watts from the original PC's 65 watts), the keyboard layout changed, and there may have been some other tweaks. =====Andrew
