PC: 5.25" Floppy Drives; 10M or 20M MFM Drive
PC-XT: 5.25" Floppy Drives; 20M or 30M HD
XT-newner Mainboard: 720K Floppy optional.
newer mainboards: PC and XT had different types of mainboard. PC had the 16K/128K and the 64/256K. The XT came with the 64/256K, or the 256K/640K. The mostly known difference was the BIOS revisions, keyboard support for 101-key on the newer XT, supports better floppy drives (XT2 had 3.5" support) and of coarse, each one has different RAM minimums/maximum. Of cousre all this could be overridden by cheats or add-in ccards.
And thats today's history lessson boys and girls. Any queustion?
Know what you should do. Make it look like its a real XT. Make the drive face plates look like the old drives.
Get a old hard drive face plat and wire the LED thats on it to the mobo's HD led connecter and if you can paint the floppy drive face plate with a flat black. Also if you can make the CD-ROM hidden, like take a black faceplat and glue it to the drive door or or something and if you can rig up a switch that isn't noticeable so the drive can open and close.
It can be done but it will take a lot of planing.
That was exactly what I was planning to do~! I'm gonna buy a slot-in DVD and mount it behind the 5.25"drive, and then the lever of the drive will be soldered to the switch. it has a 3.5"FDD, so I'm gonna buy a black 3.5"FDD drive and mount it behind the faceplate. More info when I have the XT
Do you actually WANT an an XT case? I got one, I dont know if I wanna give it up though. If you make a good offer I would, I could. It needs a bit of paint on the top becuase of scratches and I gotta rebuild the PSU. I can rebuild the PSU though.
The PSU is worthless if your going to put anything higher then a 486 in it. Just put in a new PSU unit and if you can swap out the PSU caseing. If you swap out the caseing you can easyly uew it in the case instead of rigging the newer case style in.
I'm going to cram a AMD Duron into a old PS\2 case. Lucky me that I kept most of the PS\2 hardware so I can make the system look like a PS\2 when it's done. The only problem i'm going to face is the CD-ROM. I'm going to cram the CD-ROM in it also and make it hidden an add a switch on the keyboard to make it open and close. I still have the mouse and keyboard to the PS\2 too. I have the monitor but it's a waste to use a crapy 14 inch VGA that can't go over 640x480. I'm thinking to use a old VGA monitor that came with one of my PC330s.
The PSU is worthless if your going to put anything higher then a 486 in it. Just put in a new PSU unit and if you can swap out the PSU caseing. If you swap out the caseing you can easyly uew it in the case instead of rigging the newer case style in.
Actaully, I blew the old PSU , so I took a 120W AT style PSU and stuck the guts and shit in the XT PSU case.
Wait a second... my oldest pc isn't a 486! I found an Apple LCII or something like that in my closet a couple months ago. Gotta check what its model is exactly though. But I know its older than the 486.
lol. Look in the BIOS. Like when I go into my my BIOS on the PS\2 I have, itll be like "Model 40, 56, 57, 76, 77" It wont show the spcisific model, becuase slot of PS\2's used the same BIOS becuase the mainboard was so alike. Like the model 40 and 77 are alike, just different CPU's.
II don't know, iI need to stupid BIOS disk to access the BIOS. The case is real small the fron is wide as my keyboard. It has a 286 CPU and 4MB ram. a 1.44MB floppy and a 30MB harddrive. It has thoughs weird wannabe ISA looking buses (can't remember the name of them)
The oldest computer is a Macintosh Plus wich i use as a Web and FTP server!! My dad has a Commodore 64 with Contiki and a home made ethernet card, running as a webserver!! I
This one is old, but not actually old [I built it two weaks ago]:
486 Mobo+CPU
16 MB of RAM
Old CD Drive
Old 3 1/2" Floppy Drive
And some other Junk.
I built this ought of parts in the bargain bin at Computer Renaissance [computer store]. I built this when I discovered WinWorld, and discovered Win 3.1 would not run on my P4 HT 3.00 GHZ CPU + some other stuff. Total price of that system 10 dollars. Now it runs all the old OS's, except Win98 that are available at WinWorld.
So far the comp I use the most right now (it's my only working comp)
is a:
AMD K5 PR166
96mb ram (soon to be 160mb as soon as the 128 stick arrives)
2x 2gb hard drive
32x10x40 cdrw
Sidewinder 3D Pro & Sidewinder Precision Pro joysticks
The mobo supports USB but I have not set it up yet.
AWE64
3Com 10/100 NIC
Trident pci 1mb video (soon to be a Diamond Stealth 4mb video)
I have an old 33.6 isa modem I just put in it today.
I dual boot 98se and DOS 6
Samsung S5200 Laptop
Intel i286 processor at 8mhz and Turbo mode at 12mhz
33k memory or 1MB...i forget..
33MB Hard drive
Gas Plasma display 640x480....gas plasma means orange-redish color display...
84 key keyboard
No mouse or trackball
MS-DOS 6.0 and Windows 2.03
Comments
PC: 5.25" Floppy Drives; 10M or 20M MFM Drive
PC-XT: 5.25" Floppy Drives; 20M or 30M HD
XT-newner Mainboard: 720K Floppy optional.
newer mainboards: PC and XT had different types of mainboard. PC had the 16K/128K and the 64/256K. The XT came with the 64/256K, or the 256K/640K. The mostly known difference was the BIOS revisions, keyboard support for 101-key on the newer XT, supports better floppy drives (XT2 had 3.5" support) and of coarse, each one has different RAM minimums/maximum. Of cousre all this could be overridden by cheats or add-in ccards.
And thats today's history lessson boys and girls. Any queustion?
That was exactly what I was planning to do~! I'm gonna buy a slot-in DVD and mount it behind the 5.25"drive, and then the lever of the drive will be soldered to the switch. it has a 3.5"FDD, so I'm gonna buy a black 3.5"FDD drive and mount it behind the faceplate. More info when I have the XT
I'm going to cram a AMD Duron into a old PS\2 case. Lucky me that I kept most of the PS\2 hardware so I can make the system look like a PS\2 when it's done. The only problem i'm going to face is the CD-ROM. I'm going to cram the CD-ROM in it also and make it hidden an add a switch on the keyboard to make it open and close. I still have the mouse and keyboard to the PS\2 too. I have the monitor but it's a waste to use a crapy 14 inch VGA that can't go over 640x480. I'm thinking to use a old VGA monitor that came with one of my PC330s.
PS: I have one of those monitors too. they suck. I think I got it to 800x600 by tweaking the refresh rate, or maby not.
Actaully, I blew the old PSU , so I took a 120W AT style PSU and stuck the guts and shit in the XT PSU case.
I have a Apple //gs in parts in the garage.
Those things hvae like 7" mono screens.
-Q
486 Mobo+CPU
16 MB of RAM
Old CD Drive
Old 3 1/2" Floppy Drive
And some other Junk.
I built this ought of parts in the bargain bin at Computer Renaissance [computer store]. I built this when I discovered WinWorld, and discovered Win 3.1 would not run on my P4 HT 3.00 GHZ CPU + some other stuff. Total price of that system 10 dollars. Now it runs all the old OS's, except Win98 that are available at WinWorld.
(bounce)
-Q
Pentium 133MHz
40Mb RAM
8X CD-ROM
2x 1.6GB HD's
SB16
Cirrus Logic 2MB PCI
Some Compaq Netflex NIC
I think I had like 98, 95, NT4, NT 3.1 and WFWG
I actually was looking through all these old papers and found one where I drew out my partition job. (LOL, dont ask, gotta write it before I got it)
is a:
AMD K5 PR166
96mb ram (soon to be 160mb as soon as the 128 stick arrives)
2x 2gb hard drive
32x10x40 cdrw
Sidewinder 3D Pro & Sidewinder Precision Pro joysticks
The mobo supports USB but I have not set it up yet.
AWE64
3Com 10/100 NIC
Trident pci 1mb video (soon to be a Diamond Stealth 4mb video)
I have an old 33.6 isa modem I just put in it today.
I dual boot 98se and DOS 6
Samsung S5200 Laptop
Intel i286 processor at 8mhz and Turbo mode at 12mhz
33k memory or 1MB...i forget..
33MB Hard drive
Gas Plasma display 640x480....gas plasma means orange-redish color display...
84 key keyboard
No mouse or trackball
MS-DOS 6.0 and Windows 2.03
The gas plasme better or worse than regular mono?
(reference) gas plasma
http://geeklog.linux-box.nl/photo/laptop.orange1.jpg
i like the gas plasma ....mono is alright...both just suck for colors either way tho...
386sx running at 33mhz
4megs ram
120meg HD
4X cd rom
1.44meg floppy drive
256kb of video ram ( perhaps im not too sure)
windows 3.11 WFWG
Intel Pentium I (i don't know it's speed, I can't seem to turn the PC on anymore)
16Megs RAM
5GB HDD
8x CDROM
1.44 M Floppy Drive
Windows 95
Man, I wanna go to the old computers store and buy me about5 of them. Each computer $4-$30.
Redish-Orange screen.
What are you talking about? Yes there was. 33mhz was a typical speed for 386SX wasn't it?