PC Ephemera

[Julian Wolfe]

Uh, did anyone even make any software that used it, or came on cassette? 

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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Sridhar Ayengar
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 8:28 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: PC Ephemera

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