PC/Apple/etc. Cards Worth Keeping/Storing (Tony Duell)

[Michael B. Brutman]

I'm a little late on this thread .. it's hard to keep up.

Besides the Tech Ref manuals and the Hardware maintenance manuals, the 
Sams ComputerFacts have also been helpful.  I'm a big PCjr fanatic, but 
I find the hardware literature from the PC, XT and AT to be helpful 
because it is all very closely related.

Besides keeping the old classic cards, I look for (and hold) good 
general purpose cards.  Future Domain 85x series SCSI cards are a good 
example; they work in eight bit systems like the PC and the software is 
functional enough to drive hard disks, CD-ROMs, etc.

While we're on the topic, I've been trying to find an XT tech ref.  I 
want it for the BIOS listing of the hard drive adapter.  This kind of 
thing is useful when grafting one of the old MFM controllers onto a 
PCjr.  Does anybody have a source for these?  (I have the Jr tech ref 
and an AT tech ref, but finding an XT tech ref has been difficult.)


Mike
mbbrutman at brutman.com