Philips XT with 768K

From: Jason Willgruber <roblwill_at_usaor.net>
Date: Tue Aug 18 19:21:47 1998

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> From: Kees Stravers <pb0aia_at_iaehv.nl>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: Philips XT with 768K
> Date: Monday, August 17, 1998 7:22 PM
>
> Those hard disks were very slow, and noisy too. They also suffer from
> sudden head stiction. You are lucky it is a Western Digital.
> Older machines had Miniscribe hard disks which were worse.
>
I've found that out. A 10MB MiniScribe that I in a Tandy 1000 (no suffix)
sounded like a weed whacker and started to smoke when it finally went bad.

> You can switch off the XT-IDE hard disk port with switch 8 of the
> DIP switches in the Philips XT and install a regular MFM disk controller
> and hard disk in the machine. Works like in any other XT.
>
> Kees
>
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> Kees Stravers - Geldrop, The Netherlands - pb0aia at amsat dot org
> Sysadmin and DEC PDP/VAX preservationist - http://vaxarchive.ml.org
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