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From: mom@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (mark.o.modig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: novice questions...
Message-ID: <4070@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Date: 11 Feb 90 22:20:19 GMT
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We will be inheriting a seven year old IBM PC soon (my wife is
getting a new machine at work, and we're welcome to the old one
as long we come take it away).

From what my wife tells me, the machine has:

dual floppy drives
640K of memory
a 20M hard disk in an expansion module

I would like to get the following for the machine:

a monitor (They're keeping the one the machine has)
a modem (they're keeping this, too)
a larger hard drive (eventually)

I've seen a lot of ads for one thing or the other in various
computer mags, but it's kind of hard to figure out which
of the products offered would be compatible with this
older system and which are solely for XTs/ATs/PS-2s. I know
virtually nothing about this machine, and would hate to end up
blowing money on equipment that isn't compatible.

Any suggestions or recommendations on what to look for would be
most appreciated.

Thanks very much

Mark Modig
cbnewsl!mom