19 May
2010
19 May
'10
8:50 p.m.
Just an update... the IBM arrived today via FedEx Ground, and the
seller on EBay did a very good job of packing it. I opened it up and
it was immaculate inside. It contains a 256KB motherboard, a
mono/parallel card, a serial card and the floppy controller (for both
drives). It booted just fine!
I have only had time to take one photo, but it can be seen here:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4090111&l=c8189e6100&id=73497…
Mark
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Mark Davidson <mdavidson1963 at gmail.com> wrote:
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
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 won't know more until it arrives, but it was sitting at zero bids
until I bid on it with < 15 minutes left in the auction. ?The
description the seller had used was a bit misleading and seemed to
imply only the monitor was for sale, but I confirmed it was the entire
system.
I thought that was a pretty good deal, considering how much I paid for
my first IBM PC back in 1983 or so. :) ?After that, I was at Weird
Stuff Warehouse and they were asking $100 just for the monochrome
monitor! ?But, while there, I did pick up some software bargains: ?A
sealed copy of CA-CommonView (C++ GUI Library) for OS/2 for $3 and a
copy of SCO Unixware 7 (appears complete) for $5. ?I love Weird Stuff!
Feel free to ignore this if it's too off-topic for the list. :)
Mark