terryd@teklds.TEK.COM (Terry Dunstan) (11/16/87)
> in article <4231@ihlpg.ATT.COM>, berman@ihlpg.ATT.COM (A.S Berman) says: > > > > > > Burnt by IBM: A Sad Tale > > > > Are the any ideas on where I could find the BIOS ROM upgrade > > (part number 1501005) for the IBM-PC? > > > > Scott Berman ...ihnp4!ihlpg!berman > > > > Scott, I hate to sound facetious but I would seriously consider the > fact that $40 is about 10% of the cost of a full clone. > > Sorry I wish I could help you with your BIOS upgrade. > Bob > In fact you can get a good bare-bones clone that will solve your dilemma from: Sunset Computer Wholesale 14215 N.W. Science Park Drive Portland, Oregon 97229 (503)644-9676 Their XT-1 model is a minimum configuration for $249 with: 150 watt UL approved power supply 256K 4.77/8 Mhz motherboard socketed for up to 640K metal slide case (meets FCC) You could use your old keyboard, floppy disk, and controller etc. in order to complete the system. They also have hard disks and controllers pretty cheap. It might be more to the point to just get a fully configured clone. It would probably be cheaper and less hassle. I have been using one of their systems for several months now and have found it to run all of the programs that I used to run on my old IBM PC (one like yours which I gave to my son). It also runs them a lot faster in the 8 Mhz mode. They have all kinds of other clones and configurations such as their XT-3 model for $599 complete and ready to run and it includes a monitor, Hercules graphics, and clock-timer as well as serial and parallel ports. AT clones complete for $949.00