Gustav Brock
Gustav at cactus.dk
Fri Apr 11 15:45:11 CDT 2008
Hi Gary So much have changed. Remember having the floppy controller on a separate add-on board and full height 5.25" floppy drives. And the motherboards? My first 486 board was a full size board - one half of it covered by DIL sockets you had to fill to reach the massive amount of RAM of ... 4 MB! But the old PC keyboard is still the best ever made. The sound was fabulous and the soft feeling has never been surpassed by any other keyboard. At work I still have my original IBM PS/2 keyboard (without the sick Windows buttons of course) but at home I have one of those plastic keyboards with a sound like a piece of toy. I hate it. /gustav >>> garykjos at gmail.com 11-04-2008 20:26 >>> That's crazy, who needs THAT MUCH memory? Overkill for sure. Such a waste <Very Big Grin>. I forgot about the need for add on memory. Seems odd today that putting memory on an add on card at the bus speed that that stuff runs at verses the memory channel bus would even be acceptable would it? GK On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Gustav Brock <Gustav at cactus.dk> wrote: > Hi Gary > > Oh right, so that's what the AST SixPakPlus (Type 1) Part Number 201177-001 is for: > > The SixPakPlus is a multi-function Memory Expansion board designed for the IBM > PC and XT and 100% compatibles running at 4.77 MHz. In it's standard > configuration, it comes with anywhere between 64K and 384K of RAM using > industry standard 64K dynamic RAM chips, a Clock/Calendar a Serial Port > configurable as COM1: or COM2: and a Parallel Port configurable as LPT1 or > LPT2. All memory installed on the SixPakPlus is designed to expand your PC to > it's 640K maximum. It does not support extended or EMS/EEMS type memory. In > addition to the basic configuration, it can be configured with a Game Port. > > /gustav > > >>> garykjos at gmail.com 11-04-2008 18:09 >>> > > > That's why you had to enter date and time on bootup as I recall. There > was an add on card with a battery available as an aftermarket option > along with some extra serial and parallel ports and maybe a joystick > controller too? It's been a long time though. My memory could be > clouded by the years. > > GK > > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Gustav Brock <Gustav at cactus.dk> wrote: > > Hi Rocky > > > > Still have batteries? What are you talking about? > > When I open my IBM PC XT no batteries are bolted to the motherboard - it runs on mains power! Very clever. > > > > /gustav > > > > >>> rockysmolin at bchacc.com 11-04-2008 17:18 >>> > > > > Batteries? Motherboards still have batteries? > > > > Rocky