Recent content by Gordon Zaft

Sorry to boost an old post... I just installed PC/IX 1.0 (WinWorld source) on an IBM PC 5150 with a 10MB hard card, 640K (25K on motherboard) and CGA graphics.. The Core disks (1-9) installed just fine. I was restoring the programming disks (10-13) and I get an error on disk 13 saying it's not...

In going through my trove of old stuff I found a DTK PEM-3301 (https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/D/DTK-COMPUTER-INC-386-PEM-3301.html). I tried powering it up in a "Full AT tower" case I have but nothing, not even a beep. When I looked over the motherboard more carefully I see: 1)...

Now that I am unpacking all my vintage cr^h^hstuff, I found a Jameco JE1079 8-bit floppy controller that I want to use in a 5160 I have. The JE1079 has an onboard BIOS; it's a nice little card. DIP switches on the XT are set for one floppy, and so are the jumpers on the FDC. When it boots...

This is not mine, but I thought I'd post here in case someone's interested. I bought an IBM PC 5150 from this guy, it was mint. He's okay. http://tucson.craigslist.org/sys/4095938638.html G