PC Ephemera

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Michael Holley wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> I had a original IBM PC with the 64k motherboard and small power supply. 
> A friend bought an XT as soon as they came out and it had the 256k 
> motherboard. I don't think they ever made a 64k XT.
> 
> Later I had my BIOS upgraded to install a 20 MB hard drive. (And a power 
> supply upgrade.) I had to take my computer to an authorized IBM dealer 
> to get the BIOS swapped. They would not just send you a ROM. Even with 
> an AST 6 Pack I did not have 640kB or RAM because of the 64k 
> motherboard. (But I did have a cassette interface.)

Did anyone ever see fit to make a cassette interface compatible with 
that of the 5150 that was on a card?

Peace...  Sridhar