Don't know if anyone cares, but...

My first PC was not a real IBM 5150/5160, it was a clone called the "American PC". It was a Taiwanese clone, and I got it from the company I worked for at the time which was an American Dealer. He was a bit unscrupulous as he would replace the BIOS it shipped with from Taiwan with home-blown IBM Bios chips. My system had 640k, was a "Turbo" system, and I replaced the 8088 with a V20. I still have the 8088 chip in my chip box. I also got it with two 360k drives, and two ST-213 drives which were 10mb versions of the ST-225. I even had a 2400bps Modem for it. It was in a case that looked like a 5150, but had a flip top like a car hood. It was a pretty nice system. I used it to run my BBS at the time, running TBBS software. It had a Clone CGA card that I attached to a Composite Zenith Green Screen display. I think this was circa 1983. I remember going to TCF and seeing the IBM 5150 Cassette units there for about $1000.00US. I really wanted one of those. I think I ended up paying about that for this one. I ended up selling it when I built a 286 system a few years later. I'm kinda sorry I did. It was a nice system for the time. I have a 5150 board built into a clone XT case right now. It only has 256k, so I need to configure one of the two RAM cards I have for it to bring it up to 640k. I put an 8bit OAK Video card in it that does MDA/MGA/CGA/EGA/VGA. So, I can use any monitor I can find on it. I do still have the PC style keyboard from that first system. I loved it so much, I couldn't part with it. Now, it will get use on this one. I found a 40mg Hard Drive on a card that I will use in the system. Al Keansburg, NJ