Greetings, Here is my results for canonical original IBM PC XT (5160). Current config details, links are pointed to web pages with additional information: Motherboard IBM 5160 (64 - 256KB) with the earlier ROM 08/16/82, memory - 256KB on board memory Multi-function board with additional 320KB memory …

Ah, such a simple ))) will try this, thank you!

Greetings, Recently I bought a nice IBM PC XT 5160 in a quite good condition for it's age. One of the issues I faced with this PC is that it constantly boot with the BIOS post video adapter error - 1 long beep then 2 short beeps. I tried several video adapters that I have (5 different EGA and 3 VGA, …

Tried to prepare an ancient MFM hard drive Seagate ST-412 and use them as a primary disk for my IBM 5160. Unfortunately it is not in a good shape at I expect when I bought it. At least it can spin, and heads are alive. Heads were not in park position when I got it. Taking into consideration that it …

Greetings! Have spent few days with this board, at least half of the jumpers are known at the moment. Also one failed module was found and replaced, now all 384KB are available. All jumpers labeled as they marked on the board. SW1 - Starting memory address configuration. MB memory | L1 | L2 | L3 | …

Great, thanks so much, it is very promising start. Will play with the switch settings and check them with the different amount of memory installed, just need to identify the broken memory module first, now motherboard can see only 256K on board.

Found another interesting article and couple other nice ad pictures, but nothing more.

Thanks so much, interesting article about this board. File sharing, text messaging within the network clients, network boot sounds very modern for 1884 ) Here is the nice poster with this board:

Greetings, I'll be appreciated if you help me to find any additional documentation, software to early XT era multi-function adapter. It is hard to google it due to it name: "Orchid Blossom". I know that this was a well known brand back in a days. At the moment I was able to find only this link to …

Hi, Recently I bought the IBM 5160 in not operation condition. There were problems with PSU, video card, memory extension board. It also came with no HDD and MFM controller card. I am trying to repair all this stuff and already find some dead capacitors that should be replaced. Studying materials …