23 Mar
2006
23 Mar
'06
10:13 a.m.
9000 VAX wrote:
On 3/22/06, Chris M <chrism3667 at yahoo.com>
wrote:
>in all likelihood Intel is far too simplistic an
>answer (although I do recall seeing pictures of
>multibus type boxes with an Intel monniker, so things
>like that could possibly qualify).
>
Micro 5 built the Microstar probably 2 years before any PC came out,
and it ran business basic, which they purchased. It used a 8086 and ran
a home grown multi user system.
They later built a 286 clone, and wrote their own bios, and support package
before being bought out by Samsung.
as to an 8088 clone, which would be a clone of the IBM pc, there was a
company here in Orange county, actually a guy in the back of a junk shop
that had a clone 8088 board that would run the IBM original PC eproms,
or copies after you copied them properly, or ran with a very early AMI
bios. IIRC, he was getting about $250 for a board or $450 built up.
It was called Supercompter.
Jim