PC Ephemera

[Scott Stevens]

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:13:28 +0000 (GMT)
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:

> > 
> > Tony Duell wrote:
> > > Of course therre's docuemntation. IBM sold a proper TechRef for this 
> > > machine with schematics and BIOS source.
> > 
> > I know that -- I don't own a copy and can't seem to find one on ebay or 
> > otherwise (I do look for these things before I ask questions, you know :-)
> 
> AH, OK. A suprising number of people don't realise that the PC techrefs 
> exist, or how complete they are.
> 
> I had the good sense (!) to buy an almost complete of the PC-familiy ones 
> (that is, not the PS/3 stuff) when they were just still available from 
> IBM. 
> 
> They sure are hard to find elsewhere, though.
> 
I've had the good sense to snap them up where I've been able to get them.  And I have the IBM PC/XT/AT volumes, and also the TechRef for the Compaq Deskpro 386 (which is just as comprehensive as the IBM references, and IMPORTANT because it gives insight into newer tech that the IBM-AT).  And god no, I didn't pay IBM or Compaq's prices for them.

I also have most of the IBM Techrefs scanned in PDFs.

> -tony


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