an IBM compatible micro

an IBM compatible micro CAD = computer-aided design CAM = computer-aided manufacture A great many people would love to own a really first class personal computer, but are defeated by the cost of such a machine. It is for those people that we have designed a PC that is compatible with what is currently probably the best PC around. We had planned to publish the project this month, but, unfortunately, owing to lack a space this was not to be. It will, however, definitely appear in these pages next month. Our apologies to all those keen readers who would have liked to make an immediate start! In principle, it is possible to build any computer yourself, presupposing, of course, that you can obtain all the necessary parts. This is true even for an IBM PC2 compatible, which will give you an entree to the 16-bit world and a mass of efficient software. Note well that this soft- ware is immediately usable: it does not have to be modified in any sense. There are not all that many IBM com- pa...