I have recently acquired an IBM 25SX 8525-L41 and I seem to have made the system unbootable.
Initially, the CMOS battery was dead and it displayed BIOS errors 161 and 163.
I was able to boot from the HDD if I had any bootable floppy inserted, and I could list files from the floppy drive, but...
I have recently acquired an original Compaq Portable. It came with the manuals, the DOS boot disk, and 20 blank disks. It turns on, and the screen and keyboard appear to work fine, however it seems that the DOS disk has decayed beyond use. I would like to replace one or both 5.25 drives with 3.5...