On 1999-11-18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>This sounds like you might have an original IBM Personal Computer
>(before the XT). I had one several years ago and if it did not find
>a bootable floppy in the A: drive (not sure if it had or was able to
>use a HD) it would load the BASIC interpreter from ROM and you were
>presented with the screen you describe. Are there what appear to be
>2 keyboard DIN plugs on the back of the machine? If so one is a
>connector for a datacassette recorder (a la Commodore, Atari, et.
>al.) and the other for the keyboard.
If it has the cassete port, it isn't an XT. It would be a PC model 5150.
It would also only have 5 slots instead of 8.
Chad A. Fernandez
Net-Tamer V 1.11.2 - Test Drive
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