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Earl[_93_]

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On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 16:23:30 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

The IBM PC I got was only available at point of purchase with one floppy
drive. I got rid of it a year later when I was contracted as a writer
for a tabloid called PC Week magazine, because another company, Eagle
Computer, sent me an 8086 based machine with a hard drive and an AST
multifunction board, and told me I could keep it. I did.

Beginning with the 286 machines, I started getting components and
assemblying my own. Dell sent me an evaluation PC, might have been a
386, and appointment me a moderator on CIS of one of its groups.
I had a parts room right next to my desk ;-)

I could get everything but the case because that had a serial number
on it. That is why I made so many "woodies".

I did get some pretty cool stuff when we got a good intra company
computer BB going. Guys would send me things that were not even
released to the public yet, swapping for things I had.
"Trade Forum" was really cool. The only rule was it had to be used for
company business. I could find a guy in Austin who was lousy with
system boards but he couldn't get hard drives ... and things like
that.
The best hard drives were usually not "PC" parts anyway, they were in
AS/400s or RISC machines. Usually that was going to be SCSI, not IDE
or F2DBA. Everything I had for years had a SCSI card in it. I used
SCSI drives like diskettes because you can hot plug them.
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