The cassette port was AFIK present on all IBM *PCs*. They may be harder
to find now, but I probably have at least six of the IBM PCs with the
cassette port and the 5 slots on the motherboard. One that is probably
harder to find is the version with the 16K of memory soldered in with
sockets for the other 48K (?).
Will Jennings wrote:
>
> Well, I can't speak for anyone else, but if you can find the ones with the
> cassette port easily, then I hate you. I've only ever found one, and the
> case was in poor shape.. I pitched the case, but the mobo is sitting next to
> me... HAH! Mine is more R_at_RE! LQQK! 37??3! than the Ebay one, cause I have
> an 8087 marked "IBM".. Which, I must say, is something I haven't ever seen
> before... And no, I'm not claiming that is indeed rare, beats me, I just
> thought it was nifty... If I had kept all the PC stuff I had, I could likely
> have made more than that auction, since I had the complete technical
> references and troubleshooting diskettes and pretty much every genuine IBM
> option you could want.. I have a CMI IBM HDD, and an ST-506 IBM HDD,
> numerous IBM floppies, never have found the p-System, however.. But hell, I
> had genuine IBM loopback plugs.. lol..
>
> Will J
>
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Received on Mon Oct 28 2002 - 04:46:00 GMT