• Please review our updated Terms and Rules here

Search results

  1. F

    Connecting Two Modems Directly to Transfer Files

    I would like to back up data from and send programs to my IBM PC. It has a Hayes 1200B internal smartmodem installed. I've been having issues with my 3.5" floppies... I think they're bad. They've been having problems across three different drives. Also I don't have a serial card for my IBM PC...
  2. F

    Cost of a second hand IBM PC by the late eighties

    I'm wondering if anyone has any memory or evidence of the cost of a used 5150 by the late 80s. Obviously the machines would have depreciated after almost a decade, but I'm wondering exactly how affordable one of these then-obsolete computers would have been at the time. This is important to the...
  3. F

    IBM XT Crashing With Floppy Drive Installed

    I've recently received an IBM XT. It appears to work fairly well except I noticed intermittent crashing. I've had the computer crash before the RAM test, during the RAM test, during boot up, and after DOS has loaded. During boot up, it sometimes gives different errors pertaining to the floppy...
Back
Top