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It does sound like an XT. The first PC I used was an XT-286; the precursor to the AT. It had a massive 20 MB hard drive! I still recall that the expensive acco
by jmaygarden 16y ago
It does sound like an XT. The first PC I used was an XT-286; the precursor to the AT. It had a massive 20 MB hard drive!
I still recall that the expensive accounting software for which my father purchased the computer required an ISA card to run it. Now that's anti-piracy!
- yuhong 16y ago"The first PC I used was an XT-286; the precursor to the AT." It was actually a smaller case version of the AT.
- ido 16y agoI believe it had a different cpu (6mhz vs 8mhz) and different a motherboard (16bit vs 8bit).
- yuhong 16y ago"(16bit vs 8bit)" False.
- jmaygarden 16y agoYou are correct about the clock speed, but not the bus difference. "In 1986, the XT/286 (IBM 5162) with a 6 MHz Intel 80286 processor was introduced. This system actually turned out to be faster than the ATs of the time using 8 MHz 286 processors due to the fact that it had zero wait state RAM that could move data more quickly." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer_XT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer_XT