15 Mar
1999
15 Mar
'99
2:14 a.m.
No, The PC and XT both came with FH drives. The XT also came with a FH hard
drive.
Joe
At 08:35 AM 3/15/99 -0500, you wrote:
That one set me searching my books and files.
It's an XT 286 Scott Mueller's book has full system architecture specs.
80286 cpu at 6mhz w/0 wait states
640k mem
1.2M 1/2 ht fdd and 20m hdd came standard but it will
support an additional 1/2 ht. Either 5 1/4, or 3 1/2
720/1440.
Damn ! Another to add to my "stuff"
To Tony's list could also be added
3270 PC an XT with 3270 connectivity
5279 ? it's monitor (have one but it's buried)
XT 370 giving connectivity to and emulation of the S/370
AT 3270 like the XT model but based on an AT
5144 PC Convertable mono monitor
5145 PC Convertable colour monitor
And then at the height of his power the Big Blue God created
the mighty PS/2 8580, MCA , and VGA
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com
M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
215 Shady Lea Road,
North Kingstown, RI 02852
"Casta est qui nemo rogavit."
- Ovid
Was the 5150 the only one delivered with full-height
drives? I've seen
both on the 5160, but don't know which is original.
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Lawrence Walker wrote:
> On 14 Mar 99 at 23:19, Merle K. Peirce wrote:
>
> > There wasa also a 5162 PC. We've got a couple of them. Does anyone
know
> > how they were set up? full height or half
height floppies? Any hard
drives?
> >
> > On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > > >My understanding is that some of the very first 5150s did ship
with no
> > > >
> > > > I have heard people talk about a 5150 a few times, where are some
good pics
> > > > and specs so I can appear less dumb
in the future?
> > >
> > > It's the original (1981-ish) IBM Personal Computer. The other common
(for
this group)
numbers are :
5150 PC
5151 MDA monitor
5152 Graphics printer
5153 CGA monitor
5154 EGA monitor
5155 Portable PC (sewing machine style case)
5160 PC/XT
5161 Expansion Chassis
5170 PC/AT
5140 PC convertable (laptop) ?
Now why do I remeber the above?
-tony