That’s right – the very first IBM Personal Computer, the IBM 5150 – a business-oriented machine and a hallmark platform that started it all, shipped along with an integrated cassette port. Too bad it could only be utilized through the cassette BASIC contained in ROM… Or shall we say thankfully? Yes, this interface was abandoned soon after, for obvious reasons.… [more]
Most PCs tend to boot from a primary media storage, be it a hard disk drive, or a solid-state drive, perhaps from a network, or – if all else fails – the USB stick or the boot DVD comes to the rescue… Fun, eh? Boring! Why don’t we try to boot from a record player for a change?… [more]
Description: The very first IBM PC that started it all…
Manufacturer: International Business Machines
Made in year(s): 1981 to 1987
Country of origin: U.S.
Status: Working… [more]
The infamous PC junior celebrates 40 years since its day of announcement, and for this “special occasion” I have decided to make a short re-visit to one of the experiments I did 3 years ago: booting from a vinyl record utilizing the cassette tape interface… [more]