Subj : Re: My new* 486 (*=old)
To   : Nightfox
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Mar 02 2023 05:59:00

-=> Nightfox wrote to Ben Collver <=-

 Ni> When did PCs not have BIOS setup screens?  My first PC was a 286
 Ni> (hand-me-down), and I'm pretty sure it had a BIOS setup screen. I
 Ni> remember back then, for the hard drive setup in the BIOS, there were
 Ni> specific choices for the hard drive type and size in the BIOS.

Jumpers.

My XT had jumpers on the motherboard to control what drievs were present
in the system. Jumpers on the IO card controlled the port config.
Running a debug command from DOS got you into the firmware on the MFM
disk controller to do low-level formatting.




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