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From: johnlee@pnet07.cts.com (John Wiley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: XT without parity chips?!?
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Date: 17 Dec 89 23:45:06 GMT
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I recently assisted my mother-in-law in selecting a turbo XT clone, and was
surprised that the local shop she chose sold her one apparently *without
parity chips!*  There are 8 256x120ns chips per bank - period.  It has a DTK
BIOS (which may have been modified by the shop), and *appears* to still do a
parity check during POST.  She bought it (against my advice), and it seems to
work fine, with the exception of an apparently unrelated floppy problem (it
intermittently won't read/write via the 360k drive).

I'd be very interested in any light you can shed on this.  If there's
interest, I'll post a summary.
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