The Internet connected Hot Rod #IBM PC #XT!

Your pal Al shows you how you can turn a 256K original IBM PC XT at 4.77MHz into an Internet using, awesome sounding, 16 colour wielding, compact flash crunching, 8MHz flying piece of awesomeness. Table of contents / hot rod items are achieved by:

0:00 Introduction 0:19 What items make up the 'Hot Rod' 2:00 640K upgrade : AST Sixpak plus ISA card with 512K RAM, I/O and a real time clock 2:58 ATI EGA card connected to the IBM 5153 CGA display 5:06 A working hard drive light: courtesy of some dodgy cabling I did from the XT-IDE-CF card to the front disk panel LED! 5:59 Floppy Disk Controller 7:15 Sound: Sound Blaster 2.0 Card 8:00 Nasty internal speaker hack 8:55 Internet connectivity: 3c503 3Com network card with the use of brutman.com 's TCP stack. 11:00 Mass storage: XT-IDE-CF card, with a 2GB Compact Flash card 12:14 Faster speed: Orchid Tiny Turbo 286 Card with an 80286-N (8Mhz) and an 80287 co-pro. 16:45 Speed comparison: 8088/XT 17:23 Speed comparison: 80286 speed 18:05 Booting from Compact Flash 19:40 Using the Internet applications 22:30 Configuring networking/Internet 27:50 Using telnet to connect to a linux box 28:30 Browsing the web with elinks 29:05 Using twitter 29:23 Using email (pine/mutt) 30:37 Using IRC chat natively 31:35 EGA graphics & audio demo: Planet X3 game 32:33 EGA & audio theme: Monkey Island

All of the work in this video was done without changing out any stock components such as the motherboard. No XT's were harmed in the process of making this video! #retrocomputing #ibm #xt

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