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From: berger@iboga (Mike Berger)
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Subject: Re: HD in blue PC?
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Date: 16 Mar 91 19:28:41 GMT
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nef@mace.cc.purdue.edu (paulhicks) writes:

>In article <5417@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> battle@umbc4.umbc.edu (Rick) writes:
>>I hava an original blue PC with 2 360k floppys.  I want to
>>remove one floppy and add a HD, ie. ST225.  will the bios support
>>such a drive?  The date on the bios is 1982.  
>>
>>Can anybody shed some light on this?   Thanks.....

*----
The early BIOS did not support booting from a hard disk.  I believe
this was only on the 64K motherboards.  You can confirm whether you
have the BIOS with hard disk support by looking at the back of the
computer.  If you see a B with a circle around it stamped in light
colored ink, then a hard disk (with appropriate controller) will
work.

The earlier models could use a hard disk for data, but would not
boot from it.
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