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This doesn't sound right to me. We had an XT/286 and I don't recall any expansion card involved. Wikipedia seems to agree with me that it was a totally separate

This doesn't sound right to me. We had an XT/286 and I don't recall any expansion card involved. Wikipedia seems to agree with me that it was a totally separate model. That being said, it doesn't include a citation for the info, so it's possible it's incorrect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer_XT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer_XT

edmccard 8y ago
>We had an XT/286 and I don't recall any expansion card involved... And other people had an XT that they installed an expansion card into -- like the Pfaster-286[1] [1]https://books.google.com/books?id=xsMx9D2s6y0C&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&dq=286+expansion+board&source=bl&ots=_lFrag8VIf&sig=_75OVAZvvnkxp6V8pilMbC3rA_k&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwivn7jxrMbcAhVMn-AKHUkTAn4Q6AEwDXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=286%20expansion%20board&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=xsMx9D2s6y0C&pg=PA43&lpg=P...
Tagbert 8y ago
The '286 expansion cards were not IBM products. they were produced by third parties to give the older XT performance approaching the AT '286 computers.