20 Sep
1997
20 Sep
'97
3:01 p.m.
At 02:25 9/21/97 +0100, ARD wrote:
The
releasing of the full TechRef for the first PC was something of a suprise
to hackers used to IBM's behaviour in the past.
It is worth remembering, though, that the above-captioned item was a $125
extra-cost option, which did tend to (as someone once said about something
roughly similar) chase away the squirrels.
What's fun is to find one of those now, in its oh-so-refined lavender
binder. The only strictly comparable prize is an IBM PC CP/M-86 manual.
Which is sort of pink, for those who are hunting.
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