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I finallly got around to poking around with an XT clone I salvaged, from the garbage about a year ago.
Glad I did, because it has lots of neat programs on the hard drive, like Windows 1.0, Lotus, WP51, etc..
I also got to install PASCAL 6.0 via 5 1/4 disks!
I wish I could figure out what version of DOSA it has, and it seems not to have a ROM BIOS. I tried hitting F1 or DEL and just beeps is all I get.
But the thing that amazes me, is how large everything is, compared to my most powerful PC, a pentium 166
The graphics card on the XT is almost as long as the case, the hard drive is pretty big, and the RAM chips seem to go on forever, and I only have 640k! The motherboard is pretty big as well.
Then I look at my pentium 166 with 48 megs RAM, and it looks so tiny.
I can just imagine what the size difference will be with the XT and a computer 10 years from now!
Chris
Glad I did, because it has lots of neat programs on the hard drive, like Windows 1.0, Lotus, WP51, etc..
I also got to install PASCAL 6.0 via 5 1/4 disks!
I wish I could figure out what version of DOSA it has, and it seems not to have a ROM BIOS. I tried hitting F1 or DEL and just beeps is all I get.
But the thing that amazes me, is how large everything is, compared to my most powerful PC, a pentium 166
The graphics card on the XT is almost as long as the case, the hard drive is pretty big, and the RAM chips seem to go on forever, and I only have 640k! The motherboard is pretty big as well.
Then I look at my pentium 166 with 48 megs RAM, and it looks so tiny.
I can just imagine what the size difference will be with the XT and a computer 10 years from now!
Chris