Philips XT with 768K

From: jpero_at_pop.cgocable.net <(jpero_at_pop.cgocable.net)>
Date: Wed Aug 12 17:56:27 1998

Hi Jason!

> I also have a neat XT. It's not a Phillips, but a Tandy 1000. It has 768K
> RAM, and a 12MHz 286 processor. Only, I still have the problem of not
> being able to access the upper memory. Being a Tandy, it's even harder to
> find a driver. Another setback is it's HD. It's a 20MB Western digital -
> and slow as a turtle. Does anyone, by any chance, have a spare
> XT-compatible IDE HD without a stepper motor driving the heads??

Oh there are:

Miniscribe (early Maxtor) 8051A (40MB, voice coil) supports XT or AT
mode. Seagate in either: ST325A/X or ST351A/X (quiet stepper but
pretty good).

And Tandy have website for every all the way back to early models.
Search for it with www.metacrawler.com

By the way, squash the thoughts of getting IE installed. Get
Netscape 3.04 gold (very reliable, appox 15MB total) and seperate
email program like Pegasus Mail (under 1MB), suitable programs for
mail use. Netscape 4.x is too new and too bloated for current
crop of late 486's and most pentiums. Real bad program is IE 4.x
which breaks everything especially angering those notebook owners.

Jason D.
email: jpero_at_cgocable.net
Pero, Jason D.
Received on Wed Aug 12 1998 - 17:56:27 BST