Subj : Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
To   : boraxman
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue Dec 06 2022 06:49:00

-=> boraxman wrote to Adept <=-

 bo> The original IBM PC? Now that is
 bo> interesting because I can control every aspect of that machine.

True. I started with a Commodore 64, but it wasn't until I got a PC-XT clone 
that things really got interesting. There were virtually *no* ports on the 
motherboard, everything was done with add-on cards. So, you could 
incrementally upgrade it easily. I started with replacing the 8088 CPU with 
a V20, getting a math co-processor for my CS classwork, upgrading the hard 
drive and controller to RLL to get more space, then replacing the 
motherboard with an AT/287, inheriting a card that added memory to the 
system along with more I/O... by the time I was done the only things left 
original were the power supply and the case.


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