Re: Filesystem creation

Alan Cox
2002-05-13T23:50:38Z

> 1. The original IBM PC was supplied with a CASSETTE drive as
> standard. 160k floppies were a very expensive optional extra
> as you had to buy not only the drive, but also an interface
> card and an operating system to boot from them, all sold as
> separate items. Hard drives were NOT supported, and it was
> not possible to add support for them as the BIOS didn't have
> the ability to hook extensions in.

It would be nice to find someone with an XT with 512-640K of RAM and
the casette drive, if only for an excuse to add /dev/tape 8)

> replaced with a 360k drive for an extra =A3275. I remember paying
> the extra when this wmachine was top of the range.

Youch. I'd forgotton how big those prices were at the time