PC Ephemera

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Wed Oct 26 18:15:11 CDT 2005


Adrian Graham wrote:
> On 26/10/05 23:44, "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I've also got the guide by Purple Computing for their Purple -2 Kit on how
>>to put 256K on your PC motherboard by cutting and changing a few jumpers
>>and then adding a board that attaches over the memory array that holds 64K
>>DRAMS.  I'd forgotten that the original PC was limitied to 64K on the mobo.
> 
> 
> I'd have thought this was worth saving if it's related to the 5150 XT, or at
> least it is to me. I'm trying and failing miserably to find an XT with a 64K
> motherboard, purely because I guess people upgraded them as soon as they
> could afford to.

Would there be any way to reliably estmate the percentage of XT's that 
were upgraded with Sixpack (or similar) cards?

Peace...  Sridhar


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