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I landed another 5150 a little while back and using the knowledge I gained through great advice from forum members in getting the last one going I set this one up pretty much the same. Unlike the last one, this one had a few bad memory chips, but that was the extent of it's issues. This time I...

HI All, Season's greetings! I have a an 2nd gen IBM 5150 (came with 256K RAM). In it is the standard floppy controller, a Trident VGA card, a MicroRAM card (for 640K) and a XT-CF Lite V4.1. It boots DOS 5 fine. I will run GWBASIC just fine. It will load EDIT, DOSSHELL and TurboBASIC but if...

If you add a 3rd floppy externally to a 5150 with an existing C drive what drive letter will it be assigned?

So, what next? This is a 2nd gen (256K) 5150 that I got for a really good (not amazing) price (~$180 US) in "Not working" condition. It had only two 360K floppy disks, floppy controller and a color graphics adapter. The case was in fairly nice condition with the exception of blobs of silicone...

Does anyone remember these? GMX Micro-020 I had one back in 1987 I built into an IBM PC clone case with the 68881, the DB-9 serial connector board, Uni-Flex OS and Fortran, C and BASIC languages. I had it as an evaluation system to see if it could be used in place of a DEC PDP/11-73. The DEC...

I'm new here, but not new to vintage computing. However I am new the IBM 5150. I just got one of these a while back and brought it back to life. I also got an XT-IDE for it. Now, here is where I need some help. It has two double-sided floppies in it, a VGA card, Floppy controller and the...