[rescue] worth rescuing?

[Chad Fernandez]

Fogg, James wrote:
> It appears that someone at my company might be tossing an original IBM PC
> (8088 vintage).
> 
> I'm in a quandary about rescuing something that grew into the modern PC.
> 
> What should I do?


They're kind neat computers.  I've had a few of them.  In fact it was 
one of my first computers (pc's).  I bought an XT and a PC together for 
$35 from a local guy.  The XT had already had it's mb replaced with a 
non-IBM part, and was acyually a Turbo XT.  Something went bad and took 
out most of computers boards, the mb, the hd, etc, as far as I could 
figure anyway.  I had taken the PC apart and had to quickly re-assemble 
it to continue use my dial-up account.  I was up and running again on a 
dual 360K floppied PC.  I was using Nettamer to connect and read my 
email still, but at a much slower pace :-)  This was about 96.

Much later, I sold it on Ebay.  I had upgraded to much faster computers 
and had gotten bored with the PC.

Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA