30 Sep
2005
30 Sep
'05
7:53 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Okay, I don't get it. What's so special about
a plastic box with a wimpy power supply (what was it, 32 watts?) that can't even do
DMA, for the love of Mike? A friend who should've known better bought one and
upgraded it, bit by bit, to include a hard disk and, I believe, an external ISA card cage.
He spent more on getting that poor thing to some sort of usefulness than he would have
had he purchased a regular PC/XT (much less a clone). Even so, he kept running into the
"Sorry, this doesn't work on a PC Jr." situation.
What was special about it wasn't necessarily what it was, but what it was
trying to be. Very interesting design choices and direction for IBM.
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