Project Chess Traditional Cache

This cache is placed at the past location of the IBM Entry Systems Division campus. This past research lab site in Boca Raton, Florida is the known as the birthplace of the IBM PC.

The cache container was hand crafted by fishnfla and was won by whytek99 while attending the Fishing Event. There is room for a log only, so please bring your own pen.

The IBM Personal Computer model number 5150 is the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform. It was created by a team of engineers and designers under the direction of Don Estridge of the IBM Entry Systems Division in Boca Raton, Florida. The project was given the code name Project Chess.

Abandoning the usual design process, a special team was assembled with authorization to bypass normal company restrictions and get something to market rapidly. They were able to develop the PC in about a year. To achieve this they first decided to build the machine with "off-the-shelf" parts from a variety of different original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).

The machine was launched on August 12, 1981. It had 128 kilobytes of memory (expandable to 256 kilobytes), one or two floppy disks and an optional color monitor. Pricing for the machine started at $1,565 for a bare-bones configuration without disk drives.