Last week, I began a discussion on which IBM computer I wanted as my basic chassis. I would then add the ”ultimate” expansion boards and peripherals to it. I said the AT had a few compatibility ...

A simulation of an IBM PC XT Model 5160 with a clock speed of 4.77Mhz, 256Kb of RAM, and a CGA display running Windows 1.01 ...

[Frode] felt that using the keyboard for gaming on his old IBM XT computer was simply too noisy. He came up with a much quieter way to game by building an XT adapter for an original NES controller. If ...

The best laid plans of mice and men oft go awry. At least that’s what we’d tell ourselves if we couldn’t find a 30-year-old computer monitor. [Andrew] picked up an old IBM XT on eBay recently and ...

Ten years ago I put my first PC, an IBM XT-286 into the closet and forgot about it. I was on to 386s and 486s and Mac Power PCs. But I always missed typing on my original IBM 101-key keyboard. To this ...

Those among you suffering from seasonal affective disorder-induced nostalgia may find yourselves dragging old friends back into the dim winter light this month. For me it was an old IBM XT that has ...

I know that cross-posting is frowned upon, but I thought this might be an exception. I posted a thread in the Agora a while back about an orginal IBM PC case that I'm getting rid of. I bumped it a few ...

(Norton System Information) An early Norton utility that measured computer performance. It provided a computing index (CI) for CPU speed, a disk index (DI) for disk speed and a performance index (PI) ...