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    The original PCs

    I'm an old (ok, very old) systems programmer who grew up on IBM mainframe software; I worked for universities and then Amdahl, supporting MVS and VM. In 1981 I met with the VP of IT for a $60B company; he was working on the data center's annual budget using an Apple II and VisiCalc (40 columns...
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    PC/XT 370 Resurrection

    Well, I'm new to the forum but not so new to PC's; I have my original 5150 that I bought for $8000 in October, 1981 with two diskette drives and the motherboard "stuffed" with 64K. Two 64K expansion cards make it a whopping 192K. I have recently restored a 5160 and a 5170 to as-new condition...
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    Xt/370, Pc3270

    I am restoring one each; I have the machines and the XT/370 boards (albeit with a damaged memory chip); looking for additional XT/370 boards, personality diskette, vm/pc software (legally, of course), PC3270 HW and SW.
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