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Resurrecting a Legacy X86 PC..
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<blockquote data-quote="Terryl" data-source="post: 1013086" data-attributes="member: 369937"><p>I had the original PC prototype from Zilog, sold it to a PC museum for about 2K, they really wanted it.</p><p></p><p>Had Bill Gates stopped at the Zilog booth all the first desktop PC's would have been Zilog instead of IBM.</p><p></p><p>On this prototype you had to type EXeQut (yes just as it's spelled) to get the program to run, the hard disk was the size of your washing machine, and had a tape reader for program entry.</p><p></p><p>It had a wire-wound mother board with separate cards for the CPU card, hard drive interface and tape reader, keyboard had a cable as thick as your thumb with a 25 pin centronics plug on it, a mouse was a rodent at the time.</p><p></p><p>It was a desk top but took up half the kitchen table, the hard drive sat next to it on the floor, the tape reader sat on top of that.</p><p></p><p>I thought I had some photos somewhere but cant find them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Terryl, post: 1013086, member: 369937"] I had the original PC prototype from Zilog, sold it to a PC museum for about 2K, they really wanted it. Had Bill Gates stopped at the Zilog booth all the first desktop PC's would have been Zilog instead of IBM. On this prototype you had to type EXeQut (yes just as it's spelled) to get the program to run, the hard disk was the size of your washing machine, and had a tape reader for program entry. It had a wire-wound mother board with separate cards for the CPU card, hard drive interface and tape reader, keyboard had a cable as thick as your thumb with a 25 pin centronics plug on it, a mouse was a rodent at the time. It was a desk top but took up half the kitchen table, the hard drive sat next to it on the floor, the tape reader sat on top of that. I thought I had some photos somewhere but cant find them. [/QUOTE]
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