The XT Part 6: Hard Disk Woes
The hard disk installed in my 5160 is a Seagate ST-238R. It appears to be a full-height 5.25″ hard drive with a 33MB capacity. It is always amazing to think…
The hard disk installed in my 5160 is a Seagate ST-238R. It appears to be a full-height 5.25″ hard drive with a 33MB capacity. It is always amazing to think…
The 5160 came equipped with a single Tandon TM-100-2A 5.25″ floppy disk drive. The 5150 had come with two of these, but the 5160 eschewed the second drive in favor…
Because the IBM XT uses a keyboard protocol that is no longer used by any newer hardware, my small collection of computer keyboards was useless for this project. At least,…
It was finally time to get this machine cleaned up and try to get it running. But first, a visual health check. Smoke testing I took some cotton swabs and…
Though the machine was not in a terribly pretty state, I was confident and excited that it could be revived. The first order of business was to examine exactly what…
Why I care about a computer older than me When I was growing up, I thought my dad was a tech god. I remember spending hours with him on some…