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- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!dscope!jld
- From: jld@datascope.com (Jay L. Davis)
- Subject: Re: Upgrading an IBM PC
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.155624.2708@datascope.com>
- Organization: Datascope Corp.
- References: <1992Jul24.010213.10263@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 15:56:24 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <1992Jul24.010213.10263@athena.mit.edu> ankleand@mtl.mit.edu (Andrew Karanicolas) writes:
- >Hello,
- >
- >I've got an IBM PC (the real thing) in lab that I would like to use
- >with an Audio Precision System One signal generator and DSP processor.
- >
- >The PC has 640K of memory and a 10M hard disk. It has a monochrome
- >Amdek monitor. The machine is about 8 years old.
- >
- >(1) Can anyone tell me what kind of video output this PC has? Is it
- >among things like CGA, EGA or VGA? If not, can the video be upgraded
- >to something like VGA?
- >
- >(2) The machine has no mouse. Can I add a mouse to this beast?
- >
- >(2) The PC is running MSDOS version 3.0 Would it be a good idea to
- >upgrade to 5.0? I have no room for windows on the hard disk however.
- >
- >Since a PC is required to operate the AP System One, I would like to
- >use this machine as it seems to work fine.
- >
- >Please send e-mail if you can help. Thank you.
- >
- >--
- >Andrew Karanicolas
- >MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratory
- >ankleand@mtl.mit.edu
-
-
- Its not worth doing too much with the machine. It would be cheaper to get
- a new one (just leave it for the AP System One). The graphics that system
- has is called MGA (monochrome graphics adapter). You could buy a VGA card
- and montior easy enough along with a mouse. You could also upgrade to DOS 5.
- The problem is that with only a 10 meg disk, you can't do to much. And
- if you did get the disk space, youl'd find out just how slow the machine
- really is (my old 6mhz AT seems like snail now). Its just not worth it when
- you can get a 386SX for just over $1000 now (w/ a reasonable disk and VGA).
-
- ---Jay Davis
-