We just moved to a new house with a little shed for me and all my "projects". So, I have started to get into all the stuff I had in storage which includes a never finished "barebone" XT clone.
I picked it up a few years ago when a local PC maker, Softek, finally gave up. They had this thing setting out on the sidewalk for anyone to get, so I scooped it up. Only I did not have room to do anything with my collection until now.
It is all pristine on the inside, with no drives or cards installed. There is a loose cardboard box with what looks to be some drive mounting hardware. I'll try to post pictures tonight. It is a Rakon mainboard, with what looks to be 256k of ram and eight slots. The case is a standard IBM lookalike type clone case. It still has the plastic covers over the drive bays, two half hight covers and one full.
My plan is to finally build to this thing out and give it the chance to actually run. I am not sure how I want to configure it, so any suggestions are welcome. Funds are tight, so this will be a slow acquisition for awhile.
I do have a WD hardcard in it's box that was given to me by a friend. It's status is unknown but it looks mint. So I plan to use that for the harddrive. I have a 5 1/4" floppy, but it is beige and a high density drive at that. No other 8 bit cards, except for a sony CDROM with 8bit card that I might still have in storage back in SC.
The ram is loose chips, is there anyone still selling those. Or, am I better off looking for an filled out ram board?
What do you guys think I should go for in filling this thing out? Thanks!
I picked it up a few years ago when a local PC maker, Softek, finally gave up. They had this thing setting out on the sidewalk for anyone to get, so I scooped it up. Only I did not have room to do anything with my collection until now.
It is all pristine on the inside, with no drives or cards installed. There is a loose cardboard box with what looks to be some drive mounting hardware. I'll try to post pictures tonight. It is a Rakon mainboard, with what looks to be 256k of ram and eight slots. The case is a standard IBM lookalike type clone case. It still has the plastic covers over the drive bays, two half hight covers and one full.
My plan is to finally build to this thing out and give it the chance to actually run. I am not sure how I want to configure it, so any suggestions are welcome. Funds are tight, so this will be a slow acquisition for awhile.
I do have a WD hardcard in it's box that was given to me by a friend. It's status is unknown but it looks mint. So I plan to use that for the harddrive. I have a 5 1/4" floppy, but it is beige and a high density drive at that. No other 8 bit cards, except for a sony CDROM with 8bit card that I might still have in storage back in SC.
The ram is loose chips, is there anyone still selling those. Or, am I better off looking for an filled out ram board?
What do you guys think I should go for in filling this thing out? Thanks!