Need a new thermostat

[gfretwell]

I had a ST238 on my First Day Ship 5150 PC1 (the first IBM PC) but I did swap the system board ;-)

I never did it but there was a 5 slot "AT" board that fit in the 5150 case. It was for the luggable version of the AT. (5162). That was a 286 board with the same form factor as the original PC. in the 5155 case There was also a suite of short height cards for it. By then I was running a wooden AT with a 339 board in it so I never fooled with it.

Shortly after that I made a PS/2-M70 woodie. with a 5" bay

[Clare Snyder]

ATs. Were you running the 238 on MFM or RLL? We "upped" a lot of MFM drives to RLL. We put XT and AT as well as 386 and even some 486 boards into the lunchbox portables - green, amber,and white mono, cga, ega mono and color and even a few VGA screens. Sold a lot of the orange Plasma screens too. ESDI drives were popular for a short time before I left. We sold a lot of SCSI stuff too - including a lot of CD drives. We had CD servers with 2 and 3 controllers - 7 drives per controller.

When I went out on my own I didn't bother building systems except for myself - and even then it was more "rebuilding" stuff that I took in on exchanges - I never had a requirement for anything "cutting edge"