Cool IBM PC find

From: Peter Pachla <peter.pachla_at_vectrex.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Tue Aug 3 22:46:07 1999

Hi,

>If it has a hard drive, it was probably not used as a Tempest machine.
>The TPC I have contains only two floppy drives, and my understanding
>is that a tempest machine must have media that can be removed
>and cannot have fixed media.

I found a bunch of XTs in Tempest casings at a scrapyard in Oxfordshire about 6
years ago. All of these machines had a single 360K floppy, a pair of Bernoulli
removable drives and (I think) a tape drive.

No fixed media in sight!

Didn't find anything other than the machines themselves though, IE no
keyboards, monitors.


  TTFN - Pete.

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