15 May
2010
15 May
'10
11:24 a.m.
I don't know if anyone on the list will care of not, but I just
purchased a classic IBM PC (original model 5150) with a monochrome
card and monitor for $45 on EBay. According to the seller, it was in
Nice!. I rememebr buying my first PC-family machine -- an IBM 5160. I
wantred as much original IBM stuff as possible. The machine I bought had
been upgraded -- the MDA card and floppy controller had been replaced by
an all-in-one video/floppy/serial/parallel/game card (I forget the model,
but it was commonly used in Opus brand PCs over here). But the seller had
kept the original PBM boards and included them with the machine. Needless
to say I put them back.
I still have that machine, it still works.
storage at a museum for 18 years. They pulled it out,
dusted it and
it booted DOS right away. It's a dual-floppy model.
I really don't like this cavalier approach of getting something out of
storage and powering it up without doing any tests first. But anyway...
Should you need any hardware help with the machine, I have the techref...
-tony
Feel free to ignore this if it's too off-topic for
the list. :)
Err, it's a computer. It's over 10 years old. Like it or not, the IBM PC
was a significant machine. How can it possibly be off-topic?
-tony