IBM PC 5150 with no drives?

From: Sellam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Sun Mar 14 23:41:52 1999

On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:

> 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?

Let's see, real-time clock and bus termination? No, wait, that's S-100 :)

Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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