15 May
2007
15 May
'07
7:37 p.m.
a very nice man is offering to send me (2) 5170s
replete w/5175 monitors and the associated PGA
graphics boards. These were used in the "common area"
at MIT. As such, do these represent any particular
value? I have an AT already, but these are seemingly
The PGA (Professional Graphics Adapter) board set and matching Monitor
is very rare. I would say worth keeping.
There are hopefully spare MFM hard drives in the 5170s that are worth
keeping, especially if they have the PGA drivers. This is before plug
and play but then I have only had one PGA and it was at least 15 years
ago. I bet the software is more common than the PGA hardware at this
time,
If they have the original keyboards you want to keep those too as they
are getting expensive on ebay.
As to the linage it wouldn't matter to me unless I was going to set
one up as an exhibit, an idea I have been playing with. Then you
would want both to have one as a backup.
Paxton
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Paxton Hoag
Astoria, OR
USA