Vintage IBM 5160 XT Computer system
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Uploaded by bmuscotty88 on Aug 16, 2011
This is a vintage IBM 5160 computer system Ive had for quite a long time from the year 1984. This model has:
-640 KILOBYTES of RAM,
-360KB 5.25inch floppy drive,
-10MB Hard Disk(MEGABYTE, not gigabyte)
-mono video card/printer card capable of displaying 80 columns of text and dumping it to a dot matrix printer,
-single 8250 serial communications port, which still works and can be used to hook up this PC to a newer PC via a serial transfer program such as the one I use called "File Maven"
The drive has become a bit noisy (bearings) but amazingly still has ZERO bad sectors (the low low density and size of the heads probably help). The machine boots off a floppy. In the video I run through a couple of basic DOS commands including a DIR (directory listing) FDISK (hard disk partitioner) and BASIC (to load the IBM BASIC program writer)
And by the way, that horrid sound you hear coming from the drive when I power it off is actually a cork braking system on the hard drive motor attached by a solenoid which disengages and allows the cork to jam the motor so the platters don't spin freely while being moved. For those who forget to "park" your heads. ;)
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Nice system, would love to see a tour around it, rare to see one in the hands of it's original owner :o)
RetroGamerVX 2 months ago
I really need to figure out how to transfer stuff from serial to my 5150. That would be fantastic.
raymangold22 3 months ago
I want one. I've never used a computer that old.
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