We’ve read a number of histories of the IBM PC and lived through that time, too. But we enjoyed [Gareth Edwards’] perspective in a post entitled The Misfit who Built the IBM PC. The titular ...

It would've had 640 KB of useable RAM, because that was an architectural limitation of IBM-like PCs at the ... you'd expect in a $10K PC from the early '90s. With the help of some parts from ...