Dave Bradley Describes Some of the Tech Specs of Original IBM PC

[thetruthhasnoagenda1]

My grandfather worked on these.

[KartKing4ever]

This would be great 30 years ago.

[sr71ablackbird]

@KartKing4ever it was. In a way, it was a bit more easier than the commodore PET was.

[jhurmekoski]

but will it blend?

[patrickhacks]

Can it play crisis ?

[bobba84]

That is awesome. I still have a working 5160 with 20MB Hard Drive - no bad sectors!

[sr71ablackbird]

@bobba84 cool, let me guess, one of the old (M)odified (F)requency (M)odulation (MFM)drives that one had to *park* so the read/write heads would not collapse on the hard drive platters before shutting it off ? I had an older hardrive that was similar, it held a whopping 40 Mb and was loaded with Direct Access, PC Tools, space invaders and a program called Pro-Write. I still have most of those programs around.

[43eyes]

klmk

[the2crowrox]

Haha, "only person in the world that can explain the num-lock key" indeed.