Post #1057657
2026-02-07 02:24 UTC
@fluidlogic My mother worked for IBM so of course rather than a normal computer we had to get a 5150 (version 2 system board, so it could hold up to 256K RAM), which she paid for through payroll deduction. A few summers later I went to a "computer camp" where I was the only kid with a PC in a sea of TRS-80s and C-64s and Apple IIs. It was upgraded over time; the second floppy drive broke and was replaced with a 20M hard drive, and we got a better (non-Epson) printer and a color monitor.
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-02-07 04:25
@wollman Did you replace the system board at any point? As far as I know, the 5150 BIOS doesn't know how to boot from a hard drive. @fluidlogic