On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
> >
> > There wasa also a 5162 PC. We've got a couple of them. Does anyone know
> > how they were set up? full height or half height floppies? Any hard drives?
>
> IIRC the 5162 is the XT model 286. It's a 286 motherboard built to fit
> into an XT case (and remarkably similar electrically to the PC/AT board).
> IIRC it was the only IBM PC (as opposed to PS/2) to use SIMMs.
I think this was the first IBM product to use SIMMs, but I could be wrong.
The rumor was that IBM had a bunch of left-over parts, including 8MHz 80286s
and XT cases, so they decided to patch together a machine that would use the
parts. The 5162 also supported 720K and 1.44MB floppies, but a kludge is
required to poke the 1.44 diskette type into the CMOS cuz the AT diag
software doesn't support it.
Most of the 5162s went to IBMers and we still get calls from retired IBMers who
are looking for software or want to fix them up and give them to family
members.
>
> The standard drives IIRC were a half-height 1.2Mbyte floppy in the left
> bay and a 20Mbyte full-height ST506 drive in the right bay. The
> controller was the later (not so tall) version of the AT controller.
>
> -tony
>
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David Wollmann
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Received on Wed Mar 17 1999 - 11:51:33 GMT