6885P5H
Experienced Member
After 7 years of wanting one, I finally have an IBM XT. It was never something that I really wanted like I want to have an Olivetti M380-40, I was even accepting the fact that I might never ever own one, but uhhh well now I have one... I am a bit disappointed though as I've been tricked by the face plate; the reason I wanted to have one was to have a full-height hard drive, and the hard drive that's in it is an half-height :-? even though the face plate looks like a full-height drive is inside... I paid a lot of money for it too (125$) so that sucks but it did come with an IBM XT keyboard so now I can finally use my IBM PC and it also came with a very-neat looking Tatung monitor...
But anyway, it does seem to work, I can boot into DOS 5 and do stuff, but I got stuck into a program once and had to restart the computer by pressing ctrl-alt-del and this made the hard drive unable to boot for a few minutes (even after turning the computer off and turning it back on). Very creepy experience so now I'd like to know of a way to image the hard drive before it dies or something. Can I connect the hard drive in a modern computer and image it or will it (or the controller card) only work in an XT machine? Also, do you guys know what caused the hard drive to temporarily "die" after restarting the machine with the key combination?
But anyway, it does seem to work, I can boot into DOS 5 and do stuff, but I got stuck into a program once and had to restart the computer by pressing ctrl-alt-del and this made the hard drive unable to boot for a few minutes (even after turning the computer off and turning it back on). Very creepy experience so now I'd like to know of a way to image the hard drive before it dies or something. Can I connect the hard drive in a modern computer and image it or will it (or the controller card) only work in an XT machine? Also, do you guys know what caused the hard drive to temporarily "die" after restarting the machine with the key combination?