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Thats super cheap!!! How did you manage to find a clone at that year? Does clone had similar keyboard, HDD, display, mouse?

I'm super curious, because in 1990 clones of IBM PC in my country still sells for 500-700 USD.

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This was Orange County, California. I bought it from a guy in his garage, who bought cheap parts from all over and assembled them, back before Michael Dell perfected that business model. Computer Shopper magazine (and similar) was already a thing and you could clip out pounds of ads for such tech.

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