22 Jun
1997
22 Jun
'97
6:42 p.m.
Philip,
Nip!
I have an IBM System/23 (aka Datamaster) at home. It has system board,
mono monitor, twin 8-inch floppies and PC-style keyboard in one box, and
a printer hung off the back. It has an 8085 processor, 64k RAM and 112K
ROM. The expansion slots are suspiciously IBM PC like...
Believe it or not,
you're right in your suspicions they redesigned
using this same ideas and parts that is used in this system/23 that
begat first PC. Lot of signals for that slots is very close but they
changed few lines and used 8088 which is cheaper to use with existing
8bit chips.