PC Ephemera

[Joe R.]

At 05:50 PM 10/26/05 -0700, you wrote:
>On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Adrian Graham wrote:
>> 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.
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>Do you mean 5150 PC, or 5160 XT?
>By "64K" MB, do you mean 16K - 64K?  or 64K - 256K?
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>The 5150 PC had FIVE slots, cassette port,
>available in 16K-64K (4116 8/1981) or 64K-256K (4164).
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>The 5160 XT had EIGHT slots, no cassette port,
>available in 64K-256K or 640K.
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>One of these days,  I've got to find the original power supply (black with
>white switch), and take the extra drives, boards, ROMs, etc. out of my 16K
>5150 before I sell it. 

  A white power switch? I've never seen one. And I've seen a couple of very
early PCs. 

> Are people actually paying money for those things?

   I don't know if they are or not but they soon will be. Remember that it
was only a few years ago that you could buy an Altair for a couple of
hundred dollars! It's darned difficult to even find an IBM PC, XT or AT now
(except for E-bay!). I've only seen three in the last three to four years.

     Joe

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