3 Aug
1999
3 Aug
'99
3:19 a.m.
Sellam Ismail wrote:
Ok, here's something very cool as far as IBM PC artifacts go. Its an "IBM
TPC 4 System Unit" (the model is 4459). Its a tempested PC! Its
basically an unfinished PC case inside a bigger case that provides the
shielding. The connectors in the back all extend out to the outer shell,
which has a metal screen around the connector openings. The power supply
power plug connector is a threaded round connector. The power switch is
relocated as a radial knob on the front of the chassis. Its got a 5.25"
floppy drive and a hard drive (can't wait to see what's on it) enclosed in
an inner cage to sheild them. The motherboard is a 256-512K version.
The cards inside are pretty standard (I/O, hard drive/floppy
interface, expanded memory). Very neat.
Anyone ever heard of this?
If it has a hard drive, it was probably not used as a Tempest machine. The
TPC I have contains only two floppy drives, and my understanding is that a
tempest machine must have media that can be removed and cannot have fixed
media. Did you get the tempest keyboard and monitor with it? I got mine
about a year ago, and was the first one I had seen. As seems usual though,
no docs came with it. Congratulations on the neat find!