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        HELP !!!!!

           A friend of mine has recently aquired a vintage IBM PC (circa. 1981)
that was one of the last of the PC1 based systems.( i.e. 16k-64k memory on the
motherboard ... 4 x 9 x 4116's ) At the time of purchase the machine came with
512k of memory,64k of 4116's on the mother of a board and the remainder on plug
in cards. Figuring he has the basis of a good home machine for text processing
e-mail etc., last week he went and bought a PLUS DEV. Hardcard 20.(nice move!)

                LO and BEHOLD when installed in machine no go..........

            The most obvious reason for the machine to freeze would be the old
version of BIOS that is is in the machine. I suggested that he look into 
getting this upgraded to a newer version that supports a hard disk. SO, he did 
just that and the system still locks up. Has anyone seen this problem and 
know of a fix ? Is the problem based on the PC1 motherboard ? 

            Another point of interest is, can the PC1 motherboard be modified
to use 4164 mem. chips? Is this a relatively simple/complex task ? 

            Any information/experiences on either of these queries would 
be greatly appreciated .
                                                     THANX in advance 
                                                     Gerard Hynes

.......the least we can do is wave to each other.
                               John Minton