IBM 5150 and Full-height 5.25" Floppy Drives

From: RMaxwell_at_atlantissi.com <(RMaxwell_at_atlantissi.com)>
Date: Mon Jun 7 08:49:20 2004

  I've been restoring a NorthStar Horizon that had its 5.25" full-height
double-sided floppy drives removed long ago. A friend has given me another
computer with those drives, but when I inspected it, I realized that it's a
true-blue IBM 5150 PC in very good condition! The 5.25" drives' front
panels are marked with the "IBM" logo, which makes them less-than-genuine
for installation into a pre-IBM microcomputer.

  There may be parties that would protest stripping one "classic" to restore
another: I'm hoping if there might be someone interested in both/either:

 - acquiring the 5150 as is (256K RAM [4 rows of 64K] on motherboard, plus
256K more on expansion card, no monitor);
 - supplying (Tandon TM100-2?) full-height DS 5.25" drives for the Horizon.

  The big hole in the Horizon's front panel really calls out for full-height
drives. Any help/ideas/suggestions? I'm located in Southern Ontario,
Canada and am contemplating attending VCF East.

Bob Maxwell
rmaxwell_at_atlantissi.com
Received on Mon Jun 07 2004 - 08:49:20 BST