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Article #8058QUERY: XT clone to AT clone
From: Tom Frauenhofer
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1986 14:14
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1986 14:14
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[Et tu, line-eater?] I have a PC XT Clone, 512K, 2 360k floppies, hercules mono graphics card, 135 watt power supply, and a serial card. I am thinking about replacing the motherboard with an AT-style motherboard. I am curious on what problems I might encounter, specifically: 1) Will I need to upgrade my power supply? Or can I wait until I add a hard disk? 2) Will the XT floppy controller still work in the AT board? 3) Most of the AT clone motherboards I have seen have 2 "XT-style" slots. I have 3 XT cards (the floppy controller and serial are half cards, the hercules is a full-length card). Will I be able to use them all? Or will I have to replace any of them, and which ones should I replace? If anyone has answers to these, or if there is anyone who has attempted this before, please send me mail. If there is enough interest, I will summarize the responses to the net. Thanks in advance! - Tom Frauenhofer ...!seismo!rochester!ur-tut!tfra BLOOM: You can't kill the actors! They're human beings! BIALYSTOCK: Oh yeah? You ever eat with one?
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!qantel!lll-lcc!lll-crg!seismo!rochester!ur-tut!tfra From: tfra@ur-tut.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: QUERY: XT clone to AT clone Message-ID: <733@ur-tut.UUCP> Date: Sun, 28-Sep-86 10:14:42 EDT Article-I.D.: ur-tut.733 Posted: Sun Sep 28 10:14:42 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 30-Sep-86 08:10:26 EDT Reply-To: tfra@ur-tut.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer) Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center Lines: 30 Keywords: XT AT Motherboard Swap