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Ed Knights <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 27 Sep 2002 18:28:04 +0000
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Thanks Carol

Yes tried 360K and 1.2Mb versions.  The really old 5 1/4
Have so many jumpers it was almost impossible to try
them all.

The bios was updated once, to what I can't remember.

It's fun just to run dos and a 30k editor like Norton.
It is so fast 10 M/hz wow.

Ed Knights
> On Thursday 26 September 2002 07:20 pm, Ed Knights wrote:
> > I need some help getting a Proto PC /PC-Tech X16B going.
> >
> > It is a XT with a 80186/8087 CPU and SCSI on the mother
> > board made in the mid 80's.
> >
> > It boots up on a hard drive in dos 6.22, but I get
> > a 'disk not ready' on the 5 1/4 floppy.  I have tried
> > several drives and many jumper settings.
> >
> > Ed Knights
>
> Ed:
> Just a shot in the dark: Is the disk density compatible with both the drive
> and the BIOS? Back in those days, 360K disks were bleeding edge.
> Regards,
> Carroll Grigsby
>
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