I recently found an IBM 5160 in the trash, it has no keyboard (but I have
a spare). It's almost all original! It has 256K on the motherboard, an
AST Clock/Serial/384K RAM board (I think it has a game port too). It has
the 6845 full length Black & White/Parallel board, a Hayes full length
1200B modem card (Z8 processor), a Xebec hard drive interface card, an
internal/external floppy card, the 360K floppy and a Seagate ST-412 (Noisy).
I'll try to recover the data off the hard disk, I have no idea how I'm
going to deal with the drive issue (I may have an 8 bit IDE card and
small drive). I am really tempted to put CP/M-86 on here. I've never
used that OS before and it would be more interesting than PC-DOS 2.0/2.11.
I haven't completed a full check out of the machine yet but I have enough
spare boards that I should be able to bring this up. I even have a spare
IBM PC (not XT) MB w/cassette interface. :-)
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Received on Thu Nov 02 2000 - 21:31:08 GMT