26 Dec
2012
26 Dec
'12
3:56 p.m.
On Wed, 26 Dec 2012, geneb wrote:
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012, Terry Stewart wrote:
About four years ago I got a complete 5160 with color monitor & IBM printer
for about $200. Everything was in the original boxes and even included IBM
branded printer & serial cables, also in boxes! I need to find a good
keyboard for my 5150 though.
The cool thing was that it appeared to have been boxed and then never touched
since about 1986. That's what all the file dates read. The machine was
totally pristine, inside and out. Spinrite found zero errors on the 10MB
hard disk it had too.
Must be something about XTs... I also have one that came to me in the
original boxes and in mint condition.
Bought it from a retired college professor for $50.
Steve
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Very
clean machine. Nice Job!
Thanks. It's very clean although I've had to make a couple of repairs
in the past. A shorted diode in the monitor. It also threw a RAM
chip one time. Thank goodness for POST messages, which pointed me to
the exact one!