I'm pretty sure that the single sided drives were long gone by the time
the 256K motherboard came out.
Of course, I've already proven the worth of my memory, so. . . :)
Erik
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
[mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Fred Cisin
(XenoSoft)
Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 8:46 AM
To: Classic Computers Mailing List
Subject: Re: Questions about a donation
Note from the description that it is probably NOT "one of the
earliest" which had a motherboard with 16K chips and was available with
as
little as 16K, upgradeable to 64K. But it COULD be one such, and later
had a 128K RAM card added.
On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> Anyone want an IBM PC?
>
> Reply-to: joan-keith_at_attbi.com
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 12:57:08 -0400
> From: Joan Keith <joan-keith_at_attbi.com>
> Subject: Questions about a donation
>
> Hi,
> I have one of the earliest IBM PCs. I don't know if this is something
> you would be interested or not. As I recall, it was upgraded from 64k
> of memory to 192 and it has a single-sided 5 1/4 disk drive. It is in
> my mother's attic in Baltimore.
>
>
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Festival
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