[rescue] Some days ....

[Dave McGuire]

On Sunday, June 8, 2003, at 03:03 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>    I think they did a very good job for a cheap "throwaway" design
>> done by junior engineers.  The production cost of the PC was almost
>> nothing; there are exactly *zero* components on the original PC
>> motherboard design that were more than a few dollars apiece.
>
> Except, of course, those Intel CPUs and the RAM chips were more than a
> few dollars (back then ;^)

   No they weren't.  The 8088 was maybe twenty bucks even in single-unit 
quantities, and 4116s weren't all that expensive because their volume 
was high due to widespread use in other designs.

     -Dave

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