> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctech-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-admin_at_classiccmp.org]On
> Behalf Of Tony Duell
> Sent: 01 April 2003 23:57
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: IBM 5161
>
> I am told they're fairly rare -- I've got a couple of them though.
> There's info on it in the Options and Adapters TechRef volume 1
The two things I didn't get were a bundle of books and a bundle of disks.
The hard drive in the expander has PC-DOS on it, REXX (not sure what that
is, but it says IBM Internal when I start it), the Zork trilogy and KA9Q
with other networking gubbins
> system, and you have to set the DIP switches on the extender card to
> indicate how much (if any) RAM is in the expansion unit rather than the
> main system. Standard I/O cards can go in the expansion unit without
> problems thougk
Ah, that's what the DIP switches do.....
Reading some websites yesterday there was also a bug in early versions of
the BIOS that meant certain slots in the expander couldn't be used at
particular ROM addresses, which must've made installing new cards a fun task
if you didn't know that :)
cheers
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Received on Fri Apr 04 2003 - 12:26:24 BST