IBM 5150 PC

[Fred Cisin]

On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Seth Morabito wrote:
> I'd love to add a Winchester disk, but I understand that the early PCs
> did not have a power supply capable of driving a Winchester.  How can
> I tell which power supply I have? My Google-fu has failed me on this
> query. Unfortunately it's not sitting in front of me at the moment, so
> I can't read any part numbers off of it; I'll have a look later
> tonight, but I recall it being a 65W power supply.

XT doubled the power supply output.  And full height 5.25" hard drives
needed it.  A small relatively modern drive might be able to squeak by
with the 65 W supply.