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I remember reading about that, from the Chipletter in 2022[0]:

"The XT/370, with a hard drive, could be purchased for as little as $8085. This compares with a basic PC/XT with 256K RAM for $4395 and adds a lot more functionality."

...

"So what was the PC XT/370? Put simply, it was a PC XT (the original IBM PC with a hard disk drive) with three additional cards:

PC/370-P : A card with one modified 68000, one standard 68000 and lots of logic chips.

PC/370-M : A card with 512 kilobytes of memory.

PC/370 EM: Providing the ability to emulate an IBM 3270 terminal.

The XT/370 then became three machines in one:

An IBM PC/XT.

An IBM 3270 terminal that could be used to access a System/370 mainframe.

A machine capable of running some System/370 software."

[0] https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/motorola-intel-ibm-make...



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