{"id":8598,"date":"2023-04-15T13:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=8598"},"modified":"2024-06-15T10:39:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T17:39:48","slug":"ibm-pc-convertible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=8598","title":{"rendered":"IBM PC Convertible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My very first computer was a TSR-80. I learned to first code out of necessity – you had to type in all the programs you wanted to play. My dad then purchased one of these wonderful beauties: The IBM PC 5140\u00a0Convertible<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

\n
\"\"<\/a>
Art Institute of Chicago<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The computer was a miniaturized IBM XT 8088 system with only 2 floppy drives and no hard drive. Still, it was a huge step up with the ability to save and load programs from floppy disks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love that people try to preserve the history of these wonderful old machines – and you can find everything about the system including original boot disks, specs, and configurations<\/a>. There also appear to be copies of the original <\/a>boot disk and ROM set that work on MAME. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My very first computer was a TSR-80. I learned to first code out of necessity – you had to type in all the programs you wanted to play. My dad then purchased one of these wonderful beauties: The IBM PC 5140\u00a0Convertible. The computer was a miniaturized IBM XT 8088 system with only 2 floppy drives and no hard drive. Still, it was a huge step up with the ability to save and load programs from floppy disks. I love that…<\/p>\n

Read More Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,33,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-retro-computing","category-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-2eG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8600,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598\/revisions\/8600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}