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From: kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Dumpster diving pays off (sorta)
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Date: 23 Feb 90 16:30:48 GMT
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> In article <19768@nuchat.UUCP> seven@nuchat.UUCP (David Paulsen) writes:
>I recently rescued an ancient IBM-PC from the dumpster.. and it works!
>My question: what exactly do I have to do to this beast to install a
>harddrive?

If you wan't my opinion, spend a hundred bucks and just replace the whole
motherboard; get a 10mhz clone board (and put a V20 in it.)  Then you don't
have to worry about BIOSs and whether or not a hard drive controller will work.

If you really want 100% IBM compatibility (BASICA) then pull the BASIC roms
off the IBM mother board and put them on the turbo board.  (You didn't hear
this from me)  But better yet, would be to get a generic DOS with
G(ee)W(hiz)BASIC.

Chewey, get us outta here!
                 
kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov            Jet Propeller Labs
Kaleb Keithley