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ibmmuseum on IBM 5162 PC/XT 286: The AT in XT clothingA comparable 286 model - the "Skyrocket" - was said to have been developed and used internally at Boca Raton...
Chas Weber on Motherboard plastic standoff removal toolDavid I. MacGyver does it again... 🙂
Mike Nargang on DOS memory management on a 286Oh one more thing. You say dos 5.0 was first to have himem.sys but it was dos 4.0! https://dosbox-x.com/wiki/Guide:Installing-DOS-4 DOS...
Mike Nargang on DOS memory management on a 286Holy crap I have no idea how I got here or how there is a lively discussion on 286 memory...
ibmmuseum on Is a SOC analyst a good jobGreat article! I started on an IT path 25 years ago, without completing an intended degree plan and switching to...
Jason Bucata on What the purpose is of RAID adaptersMy understanding is that hardware RAID adapters have fallen out of favor for disaster recovery reasons (hashtag irony)... if your...
Dave Farquhar on DOS memory management on a 286Yes, one of the links in the entry goes into my earlier blog post about DOS memory types which goes...
J. B. on DOS memory management on a 286The original IBM PC(& by extension most PC compatibles) used several regions of memory between 640K & 1M(the limit for...
TomH on Best postwar Lionel transformerThe original Lionel ZW transformer was built to last almost forever and is highly serviceable. If you add TVS diodes...
Gary Osborne on DOS memory management on a 286I can't supply a recipe for doing this but the original 640K limit was a feature of the IBM PC,...