is this the first Pentium box IBM made?

--- On Sun, 7/24/11, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote: Which is a different discussion altogether. I neither care what systems utilized overdrive processors (in a discussion of Pentium "firsts") - you can always retrofit a box w/some *official* or aftermarket cpu upgrade (for instance there was a 3rd party 486 retrofit for 286 based machines, though likely came out a good while after _actual_ 486 boxes were shipping, and even machines like the ALR 386 offering was supposedly geared towards running a 486, but I don't know the details. Maybe it just had the main guts on a card). But...since you brought it up - and this is a vintage/historic forum, I doubt I've received answers to the questions of which were the earliest machines/upgrades/cpu cards/sbc's used the 8086/8 and 80286 uPs. As far as IBM is concerned, I suppose the Displaywriter is the first 8088 based system. That would be a relevant discussion. Another question - did 8086/8 upgrades to 8085s predate from the ground up 8086/8 based boards? Since most of the support chips are interchangeable, I would think yes. But personally I don't know of any.