19 Jul
2018
19 Jul
'18
4:07 p.m.
On Thu, 19 Jul 2018, Ed Sharpe wrote:
a?? really?? clean?? IBM 5170 if it?? landed?? her??
would?? be?? welcome though!
My 5150s, 5160s, and 5170s are very far from "clean". Functionality over
esthetics. Additional mounting holes, some have additional DB25 and
DC37 cutouts in back, some don't have lids (a few never did), one 5170 had
bad case damage when a bookcase landed on it during Loma Prieta, etc.
My first 5150 started life with the white switch black power supply.
A decade ago, the college dumpstered the collection of one of my
colleagues; besides IMSAI, ProcTech, N*, he had had a few dozen clean
5150s and 5170s, including several of the "gold-badge" 5170s.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com