place your bets

[Rod Smallwood]

I don't know about cases but I do remember a TV program where an IBM guy
reached into a drawer and produced the first and original wire wrapped
8088 PC prototype board. Talk about 'mother of many'!!

Rod Smallwood


-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Fred Cisin
Sent: 05 March 2007 20:44
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: place your bets

> > Did the earliest prototypes of the PC, and later AT, that Microsoft 
> > got to work with have cases?
>
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Chris M wrote:
>  Whether that question is rhetorical or not, I haven't the answer. Are

> there pictures of these things somewhere out there?

not rhetorical
(Don't you hate rhetorical questions?)

There don't seem to be pictures, and the people are getting scarcer.
I had a friend who worked at Microsoft in those days (and before, when
you could ask for somebody on the phone by first name), but he died a
few years ago.