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From: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Dumpster diving pays off (sorta)
Message-ID: <2199@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 23 Feb 90 17:56:35 GMT
References: <19768@nuchat.UUCP> <6550@cps3xx.UUCP> <3603@rti.UUCP> <2914@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Reply-To: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen)
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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In article <2914@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> kaleb@mars.UUCP (Kaleb Keithley) writes:
>> 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.)

Just be sure to get a 5 slot motherboard, else you'll need a case.  then when
you run out of slots, throw them both away & get more slots, and also buy all
new 10 Mhz memory, cause the antique rams probablw won't run that fast, and
most 10 Mhz PC/5 slot motherboards require 256K chips, and often the last
128 isn't even 64K ram anymore, then if it does allow 64K's & you need 
a multi function board which may or may not work at 10Mhz....
   No I wouldn't buy a new $ 25 pheonix (or whoever) bios IF needed either
(avail. from jameco electronics)   8-).
al