Introduction

Your personal computer is powerful, versatile, and easy to use. After setting up your system with the simple instructions in this manual, you’ll soon be using your favorite software programs.

This computer is available in these configurations:

The system provides one or two diskette drive and an optional 40MB (or 80MB) hard disk drive.

You can operate a lot of application programs very fastly and efficiently with this system because it provides 64KB (or 128KB) Cache memory.

This model comes with 1MB of internal memory, a total of eight internal option slots, a System Motherboard, on board FDC, IDE HDC, and built in serial and parallel interfaces.

Your computer comes with MS-DOS — the operating system by Microsoft. In addition to the introduction to MS-DOS provided in this manual, you’ll find a complete reference manual for the operating system packed in the box with the computer.

As your needs grow, so can your computer; you can expand your system by adding a wide variety of options. You can install most option cards compatible with the IBM Personal Computer. If you use software that executes complex mathematical calculations, you may want to install a 387™ math coprocessor or 3167 math coprocessor to speed up processing.

Introduction 1