Image talk:IBM PC 5150.jpg

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Note to the author: the image on the screen shows "Available Disk Drives: 3, A: - C:". There is no hard drive visible on this machine, and as external hard drives on a 5150 were extremely uncommon (not to mention, not pictured here). It's clear that this screen shot is not generated by the PC in the photo.

There is a 20MB SCSI hard drive connected to (and bolted onto) an ISA SCSI hardcard inside the machine. It is the size of a modern IDE hard drive, and was probably added in the late 1980s. I presume this was installed by the previous owner of the machine, who I understand used it from new until the late 1990s or early 2000s. boffy_b 09:29, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

The text on the screen is generated by the machine pictured. The only editing done to this photo is the blanking of the backgrond. boffy_b 14:58, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

That's Peter Norton's SI. I still use it to calibrate DOSBox programs. I can't quite make out the number, but it *should* read 1.0. Drutt 22:01, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] PCWorld using this image in their story

... in their story of "The 25 greatest PC's of all time", by the time IBM's 5150 reached 25 years: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,126692-page,8-c,systems/article.html
-Mardus 23:28, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

That's cool, was it in the print version too? I don't mind them using the picture, indeed I'm flattered, but shouldn't they have to note either its GFDL or CC-BY-SA status somewhere? Have they done this and I've missed it? I'm not bothered, just curious. boffy_b 23:55, 13 August 2006 (UTC)