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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://en.community.dell.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Dell History at the Smithsonian</title><link>http://en.community.dell.com/blogs/direct2dell/archive/2007/05/15/14876.aspx</link><description>Last week, Michael was on hand at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to donate items from Dell's past . One of those items was a PC's Limited computer from 1985 complete with invoice #100. That machine joined other pieces of PC history</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)</generator><item><title>re: Dell History at the Smithsonian</title><link>http://en.community.dell.com/blogs/direct2dell/archive/2007/05/15/14876.aspx#16745</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 19:52:33 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e3197daa-ef0d-4a70-8402-29215ff9a0f2:16745</guid><dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator><description>Wow, PC's Limited.&amp;nbsp; I haven't seen that name in nearly 20 years.&amp;nbsp; I used to pass by a loading dock with that name on it on my daily commute to the Motorola (now Freescale) plant on Ed Bluestein Blvd. in Austin in the late 80s.&amp;nbsp; How the company has grown since then!&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://en.community.dell.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=16745" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Dell History at the Smithsonian</title><link>http://en.community.dell.com/blogs/direct2dell/archive/2007/05/15/14876.aspx#14949</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 05:00:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e3197daa-ef0d-4a70-8402-29215ff9a0f2:14949</guid><dc:creator>Lionel_Menchaca</dc:creator><description>&lt;P&gt;Bill: Thanks for your comment—definitely made me smile. From the time I got my first XT-compatible machine, I was hooked. After learning to upgrade components, the possibilities seemed endless. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;They still do. :)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://en.community.dell.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=14949" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Dell History at the Smithsonian</title><link>http://en.community.dell.com/blogs/direct2dell/archive/2007/05/15/14876.aspx#14947</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 03:26:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e3197daa-ef0d-4a70-8402-29215ff9a0f2:14947</guid><dc:creator>Bill Curnow</dc:creator><description>&lt;P&gt;My first Dell was a PC's Limited 286 with a 287 math co-processor.&amp;nbsp; I recall fondly watching the cylinder change on the 4-character diagnostic display during disk activity.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://en.community.dell.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=14947" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Dell History at the Smithsonian</title><link>http://en.community.dell.com/blogs/direct2dell/archive/2007/05/15/14876.aspx#14946</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 02:58:03 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e3197daa-ef0d-4a70-8402-29215ff9a0f2:14946</guid><dc:creator>Lionel_Menchaca</dc:creator><description>Zian: Thanks for the heads up... it's fixed now.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://en.community.dell.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=14946" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Dell History at the Smithsonian</title><link>http://en.community.dell.com/blogs/direct2dell/archive/2007/05/15/14876.aspx#14945</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 02:49:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e3197daa-ef0d-4a70-8402-29215ff9a0f2:14945</guid><dc:creator>Zian</dc:creator><description>The WMV Download link is broken.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://en.community.dell.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=14945" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>