IBM PC hacking

[Jim Leonard]

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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