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From: pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Early IBM personal machines, was The New Chips
Message-ID: <511@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Date: 8 Feb 88 03:48:07 GMT
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Posted: Sun Feb  7 22:48:07 1988

> In article <19753@bu-cs.BU.EDU> madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost) writes:
> >Along the same lines, most PC users don't know that the "IBM PC" was
> >IBM's second attempt at a "personal" computer.  The first was called
> >the System/23 or "Datamaster".  I don't recall the IBM product number.
> >...
  ... and let's not forget IBM's 68000-based CS90000 (tho that was released
      in June, 1982)..