On 20 Nov 99 at 0:00, Chad A. Fernandez wrote:
>>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.
Worse than that, Chad, is that the slot spacing is different so you
cannot even put another mobo in that case as only 1 slot will line up
properly. :( It is pretty much just a collectors item, IMHO.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant.
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