IBM PC type 5150

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_wco.com>
Date: Sat Feb 14 17:10:11 1998

On Sat, 14 Feb 1998, Charles E. Fox wrote:

> I just picked up two of these at a thrift shop, 2 floppies, cassette jack,
> no hd. On the mounting plate of the floppy card is a female 37 contact 'D'
> connector. Can any one tell me what this was for?

This is the original IBM PC. The connector is for an external floppy
drive, and I believe other types of drives were designed to hook into it
as well such as tape drives.

Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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