IBM PC 5150 with no drives?

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Sun Mar 14 16:15:42 1999

> IBM's braindead decision to have 5 (instead of 8) expansion slots meant
> that aftermarket "multifunction" cards became quite popular. MANY of
> them advertised SIX functions; after memory, serial, parallel, and
> joystick, how many people remember what purported to be the other two
> functions?

Real time clock.

I don't recall whether the sixth function was a floppy controller or
a second serial port.
Received on Sun Mar 14 1999 - 16:15:42 GMT