IBM PC 5150 with no drives?

From: Jason Willgruber <roblwill_at_usaor.net>
Date: Fri May 14 18:58:02 1999

The other two options could have been a number of things, such as a
HD/floppy controller, a clock/battery, and

I remember even seeing one that plugged into an expansion slot and the
8088/8087 sockets. It had a parallel, serial, VGA video (on a separate
backplate - so the thing actually took up two slots), high-density floppy,
IDE HD, clock/battery, and 4 30-pin SIMM sockets. I wish I could find one
of those cards - or find out who made them.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel T. Burrows <danburrows_at_mindspring.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Sunday, March 14, 1999 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: IBM PC 5150 with no drives?
>
>>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?
>

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