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  - A word about 'Spinrite' ... a repeatedly echoed myth from many forum users
    04/29/17
    Spinrite is a hard drive diagnostic software, and was first published in 1987. The last version 6.0 was published in 2004. Before I go on with my explanations, remember, Spinrite should be necessary only for MFM and RLL drives, modern IDE drives have their own defect management.
    
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  - Got an IBM Portable PC 5155. Really slow, but it's a nice engineering piece.
    04/23/17
    This Portable PC is heavy, but it's an IBM PC/XT in a case with a build in amber CRT screen.
    It's factory configuration only includes 256KB RAM, an IBM PC floppy controller and a CGA graphics card. The internal screen is feed by an FBAS (Composite) video signal (and not with 9-pin con
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