IBM PC 5150 with no drives?

From: Jason Willgruber <roblwill_at_usaor.net>
Date: Sat May 15 00:54:19 1999

I don't think that the card was marketed directly for the PC, but for 8088's
with a free expansion slot in general.

It probably came out in the late 80's (maybe even early 90's), for people
wanting to upgrade their XT's to something more up-to-date, without buying a
whole new computer.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Sunday, March 14, 1999 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: IBM PC 5150 with no drives?
>Jason Willgruber wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>Any card that used VGA would come along several years later after the PC
was
>introduced (can't remember off hand what year VGA was first introduced.)
>Interesting comment about an IDE controller and the SIMM sockets for the
PC;
>I have only heard rumors that an IDE controller was built for the PC, and I
>have only seen SIMM expansion boards for the 16 bit bus.
>

Received on Sat May 15 1999 - 00:54:19 BST