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chetl@daisy.tamu.edu (Chet Laughlin) writes:

>In article <1606@cvbnetPrime.COM> kanderse@money.UUCP (Kurt Andersen) writes:

>>As I recall the first verrsion of the IBM pc used 8086.
>>This version failed and was shortly followed by the
>>8088 version of the IBM pc.
>>Every so often you here about someone looking for IO cards
>>for an original IBM pc.  The 8086 IBM pc had a different
>>bus design then the popular IBM pc.
>>-Kurt
>
>I can't vouch for the red carpet/blue carpet story, but
>the first IBM PCs did use Intel 8086s.  They also had
>cassette ports in the back, as some of you may recall.
>The machine is called a PC-1 internally by IBM hardware
>reps.  The motherboard came with 256K of RAM if I remember
>right, and could hold 512k.  The PC-2 came out later,
>and had an Intel 8088.  There was room on the motherboard
>for 640k and the cassette port had dissappeared - but 
>Basic still supports it...


I just looked inside a PC-1, and, well, at least the carpet 
story might have some credibility!

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