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Originally Posted by CraigD
Also, even with its hard drive in piece beside it, your living fossil should boot to a 5.25” DOS boot floppy disk OK, even if, as freeztar suggest, it has a dead CMOS battery. As I recall, some of those old CMOSs had weird batteries, but could all be replaced by any 3V DC source, that is, a couple of AA[A] batteries in a homemade or manufactured holder.
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Note: you do need to find a 360k disk: the ROM knows nothing about the more modern "rigid-floppy" disks...
Also, I don't know when they added it, but I can assure you that the original PC2 (2-floppy) and first XT machines did *not* have batteries! Mine had an add-on card (I don't remember what it was) and a program reference in the autoexect.bat to get the time off the card. If you had nothing on it to do so, the first thing DOS would do was ask you the time and the date!
On the hard-drive: those slots are ISA, a standard that lived an awfully long time. You actually should have a pretty easy time finding an "XT-compatible" disk controller or even a disk that would fit into the cable off of the card somewhere, even down in the southern hemisphere there....
config.sys,
Buffy
