IBM PC Portable

For general information see: IBM Personal Computer XT - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The PC Portable is exactly a XT computer with a CGA display

My working computer

All parts original IBM except the processr it's  a NEC V20 and the addinional hard disk

ROM BIOS 11/8/82=first XT version

Software

To test the computer use the IBM diagnostics discette , here image of version 2.20 ref 6139780 DIAGPC.IMD

To explore his possibilities ,here image of the exploring the IBM computer xt discette ref 62X9123 EXPORPC.IMD

More information on disk images see http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm

To boot the computer from the disk drive make use of one of the IBM PC-Dos versions (I tried several from 2.0 to 7.0 and all workd fine) you can download boot versions on internet see PowerLoad Boot Disk Project

Last update 15/11/2008