On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 01:48:12 -0500, "Hackworth"
wrote:


My first *serious* computer was an IBM XT/286 which, as you may expect, was
a hybrid between the IBM PC XT and the IBM PC AT. Even had a 20 MB hard
disk. Wooohoooo! That was my first system with a hard disk drive, and was I
ever amazed! Later, I put a Hercules monochrome graphics adapter in it so
that the system could render graphics and upper-ASCII characters (if the
software app supported it, of course). Also added a 3.5-inch 720K floppy
drive in 1987. Those were the days... seems like yesterday.

Was actually an AT motherboard (perhaps a custom one), in an XT case.
You had to used lower profile add-on cards, as some AT cards were too
high.