End of PeeCees?

[Jules Richardson]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 8/8/2006 at 1:29 PM Fred Cisin wrote:
> 
>> This is getting a little too close to politics.
> 
> Yes, I apologize and shall endeavor to restrain myself.  
> 
> To get this back on track, the BBC narrator talked about the "clicking 5150
> and its single diskette drive and 16K of memory". 

That's interesting - the BBC were just asking if we had a 5150 that they could 
borrow.

They didn't say why they specifically wanted a 5150 rather than a far more 
easily-obtainable 5160, though; I can't imagine any TV company needing such a 
level of detail that one wouldn't do above the other - particularly as to Joe 
Public 'original PC' tends to mean 'XT'. I can only assume they need to focus 
on the cassette port for some reason. Curious.

 >  Okay, I've seen 16K
> 5150s sold, but not with a floppy drive as a standard configuration.  Were
> any 16K one-floppy systems sold as a standard (not bootleg) configuration?

Do you mean that all the 5150's sold with floppy drives were 64KB variants? 
(That's what I have - but I have no idea what was typical)

cheers

Jules