Hi, Orginal ibm pc had floppy disk 64meg ram optional cassette drive 82 keyboard, XT bios change, harddisk 10 ro 20mb? AT bios change to 286 processor, second interrupt controller, RTC, hard disk, new keyboard, colour option
>From memory (I have lost my IBM hardware manual with the bios listings) Maurice -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Packer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 15 August 2006 11:28 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Desktops through the ages 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
