At 09:27 AM 3/14/99 -0800, you wrote:
 The original IBM PC (5150) had 16K of memory (NOT 4k -
THAT was the TRS-80
:-), expandable by populating sockets to 64K.  Case, power supply,
motherboard with "Cassette BASIC" in ROM, and keyboard.  It sold for about
$1320.  Without video, without disk controller, without drives, without
serial, without parallel.  
Oops...  crossing my machines (yet again...)  B^}
-jim
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