Running a spare machine which I got from somebody makes fun.
My wife uses it for her email and I can work freely on my machine.
I finally got it connected to a color cga monitor (until shortly she had to
work in monochrome). On the casing it is named DATACOM Personal Computer.
According to msd it is a IBM 8088 or 8086. The mother board says it is an
XL-6 Turbo Rev. 5, it has a ST 225 hard disk which has its own card (two
connection one small one wide one-Data Tech 5150X Fab DWG Rev B)
On the IO card without any identification (made in HongKong EX?)a battery is
found (3V cadmium) which use I can not even guess. Further two com ports
(named ASYN1 and ASYN2) LPT1, game port and a diode (what is that thing doing
there?). Two drives A: 5.25" 360K and B: 3,5" 1.44M are connected.
Four jumper blocks of different size complete the picture.
The PC(?) is completed by a color graphics board IK Micro Board IV.
The machine has MSdos 6.20 running and performs according Landmark
(V 3.14.2)like a 5 MHz AT.
I have some urgent questions:
1) What I do not like though is that I have to boot the machine with a
floppy. Is there a method to start the machine from the hard disk?
2) Was there not some Mode command to suppress snow?
3) can I let the machine keeps its time? date?
4) the fixed disk and floppies are not handled by the bios. But where are
they handled then? Is there something that I could setup in the bios?
Bios Version C1.10, copyright IBM, bios date 08/16/82.
5) any information about this machine? its producer etc.?
Microsoft Windows... a virus with mouse support.
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