PC Ephemera

[Tony Duell]

> 
> 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

It is, of course, the same size as the PC or XT system cabinet, and can 
stack on top of it.

> cards, it costs $2585! (with a hard drive)  That's almost three times what

>From what I remmember, you can't put video cards in the expansion 
cabinet, and if you want to put memory in it, you have to set DIP 
switches on one of the expansion unit cards to set the address boundary 
between memory in the system unit and memory in the expansion cabinet 
(that implies, of course, that memory from 0 to some address is in the 
system unit, memory above that address is in the expansion cabinet). I am 
not aware of any problems with any pure I/O port cards going in the 
expansion cabinent.

> I paid for my first XT clone!   FWIW I've only seen one of the things. They
> must not have sold many of them.

They are fairly rare, but I hae at least 2, and maybe 3.

-tony