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From: alexande@drivax.UUCP (Mark Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Dumpster diving pays off (sorta)
Message-ID: <GZGFNR7@drivax.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 90 18:42:40 GMT
References: <19768@nuchat.UUCP> <6550@cps3xx.UUCP> <10843@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Organization: Bob-ist Temple of Monterey
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In article <10843@saturn.ucsc.edu> lance@helios.ucsc.edu (Lance Bresee) writes:
>In article <6550@cps3xx.UUCP> draper@cpsin1.UUCP (Patrick J Draper) writes:
>>In article <19768@nuchat.UUCP> seven@nuchat.UUCP (David Paulsen) writes:
>>According to <begin underline>The Winn Rosch Hardware Bible<end
>>underline> (how do you underline anyway?) the original IBM PC introduced
>>in 1981 cannot handle advanced video adaptors (presumeably EGA) or hard
>>disks.

True, the BIOS in the original PC-I (with the 64K motherboard) doesn't scan
for adapter ROMs (such as those on hard disk cards).  The PC-II (with
the 256K motherboard) did scan for ROMS, so you can install hard disks
in them without a BIOS upgrade.  The power supply may be too wimpy, though.
-- 
Mark Alexander	(amdahl!drivax!alexande)