PC Ephemera

[Joe R.]

At 01:52 AM 10/27/05 +0100, you wrote:
>> Mine was for the PC, not the XT; but even with 256K on the mobo, it wasn't
>> the memory that made me ditch the thing.  It was the FIVE EXPANSION SLOTS!
>
>And what is wrong with the 5161 expansion cabinet? 

   Well besides being HUGE and the fact that it didn't support all of the
cards, it costs $2585! (with a hard drive)  That's almost three times what
I paid for my first XT clone!   FWIW I've only seen one of the things. They
must not have sold many of them.

     Joe

That would add a total 
>of 6 more slots to the system (there are 8 slots in the expansion 
>cabinet, one is taken up by the receiver board, and you lose one in the 
>main system for the driver board).
>
>-tony
>