Ted Blank wrote:

> The one I may get has only a 720K floppy drive and no hard drive.  Is
> there any way to upgrade the machine to have 1.44Mb drives and hopefully
> a hard drive?  I can't remember if the one at the PSN meeting had a hard
> drive, but I think it did.  If anyone remembers who had it, please let me
> know...  Thanks.

If it has an expansion slot (probably ISA) you might be able to plug in
a multi-IO board and get it all working. Some of them have their own
BIOS to set up hard drives. I doubt there's much room inside for a hard
drive though. If you wanted to use Larry's ADC board it might be a bit
too big to fit and you would need another ISA slot. I think your best
bet is a serial port ADC thingy, and for that why not get a regular
laptop?

One last thought is a BIOS upgrade for the motherboard. I can't remember
the name of the company, but they claim to have a lot of BIOS upgrades
for older computers. This might be them : http://www.mrbios.com/

,Greg

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