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- From: toad@cellar.org (Tony Shepps)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.unisys
- Subject: Re: Hello
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- Date: 8 Sep 92 23:51:49 GMT
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- Lynn.Olivier@f31.n282.z1.tdkt.kksys.com (Lynn Olivier) writes:
-
- > To: Newsgroups: Comp.sys.unisys
- > Repy: Lynn.Olivier@tdkt.kksys.com
- >
- > I told my Dad a Univac\Sperry\Unisys alum that I would check out this
- > newsgroup as he has one of the first generation Sperry PC's. He has
- > upgraded the memory but when he went to add a hard drive he found it was
- > not possible with his model. If anybody has solved this problem please
- > let us know. Lynn DeRider Olivier
-
- What he needs is a BIOS upgrade. Basically stated, the BIOS is an IC chip
- on the main board of the computer. Without a new BIOS chip, the system
- doesn't know hard drives from beans. Even if your system can run with a
- hard drive, your BIOS chip might not know about your particular model of
- hard drive.
-
- The good news is that it's not hard to pull the old chip out and put the
- new one in. The price should be about $49.95, which is not cheap, but it's
- less expensive than a new computer. There are firms that specialize in new
- BIOS chips for old systems. I've never dealt with any such firms myself,
- but a quick look through Computer Shopper shows one such place, "Smart Micro
- Technologies" at 800-266-1576. They list Sperry as one of the systems they
- can upgrade.
-
- The other problem with the old Sperry PCs is that the expansion slots are
- not absolutely regulation size, making it sometimes difficult or impossible
- to upgrade a video card, controller, or anything that expects the full IBM
- PC size cut-out.
-
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