Servicing Personal Computers, 3rd Edition

6

Servicing the IBM

PC

and

compatibles

Of the six and a half million personal computers regularly in use in Western Europe, a very

significant proportion is accounted for by the IBM PC, PC-XT, PC-AT and numerous

'compatibles'. These machines, more than any other, have set the standard for personal

computers in the 1980s and have attracted a software base which outstrips all other machines.

This chapter is devoted specifically to servicing the IBM range of machines but the techniques

are applicable to a wide variety of other 'industry standard' personal computers.

The

PC

family

Every since IBM entered the personal computer scene, it was clea ...