1074IBM PC Collectors and collections
- Aug 2, 2005Regarding the IBM PC, it was manufactured over a 6 year span. There
were quite a few changes during the production run. Hence, there are a
LOT of them floating about, mostly worth nil, especially "B" models. I
had examples of all of them. The first general production run had 16Kb
(RAM) motherboards; the power supply and rear panels were painted
black; and the 8080 CPU had a bug (shades of the much later Pentium).
THOSE are the coolest and actually valuable PC's. The rest?....
An interesting aside: a fellow I know who worked for IBM in Australia
says the power supplies were always blowing up....the early ones
didn't get the power supply quite right. Bill/KA3AIS
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