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Ibm 5150
Name: Adam Date: April 9, 2003 at 15:18:42 Pacific OS: Unknown CPU/Ram: 4.77MHZ,
Comment:
Anyone know how to get a IBM 5150 Personal Computer to boot up with a floppy disk without an audio cassette drive. I think it says it came with IBM PC-DOS 1.0. I have one 5 1/4 floppy disk and one hard drive.
Name: johnoh Date: April 9, 2003 at 16:32:48 Pacific
Reply:
I think there is a switch block on that motherboard, or maybe two. If there are two the second one is for setting the memory capacity - later models counted it up automatically.
I think the first switch on the first block controls the boot drive. Might as well give it a try. If it doesn't work a search on "ibm pc switch settings" or "5150 switch settings" may help.
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Response Number 2
Name: johnoh Date: April 9, 2003 at 16:35:32 Pacific
Reply:
You might also try posting this in the DOS forum - there are several owners of your machine who contribute there.
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