Strange HD Boot Problem

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If you paid for an IBM-branded PC no later than 1980, you should be about the only person in the world doing it. Normally, the (very few) people which deals with it then werepaidfor.

Or perhaps you are William Lowe, or one of his managers; but then the price was not $6,000. ;-)

I never encounter a PC-XT with the cbuttette interface exposed. This is not to say it did not existed, but they should be pretty rare. Also, PC-XT (5160) was released early 1983 (some say March 3rd.)

On the other hand, the "original" (5150) PC did have the cbuttette interface; US$6,000 seems to me a correct price for a version with two (160K) floppy drives and a monitor, along with probably 64K RAM (early PCs were "cheap", better said affordable; XTs were priced higher, but also have higher performances.)

If we are really talking about 5150, it would take place between November 1981 and March 1982 then.

You should take care of such antiquity; the present value for an already running one is probably much higher than the inflation-deflected cost of it, which is so rare for electronic devices for that it should be highlighted.

You did a good deal, congratulations.

Antoine