Future uncollectable computers... - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

18 Jul 2003

In a message dated 7/18/2003 2:07:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
jforbes2(a)mindspring.com writes:

...
  One model that
I used to support and I'd like to find would be the IBM   Aptiva 
 stealth model they made back in 1998/1999. I
thought it was a neat idea to 
put the drives in a seperate enclosure below the monitor.   
 1996/97 maybe?  Cluttering up my office/lab/computer room is an Aptiva 
 166mhz machine, with the neat black tower and black monitor with the 
 drive pod below it.  It's a non-upgradeable system, a gift to one of my 
 kids from a grandparent, and has been replaced with a more modern 
 generic pc.  You should be able to find on on epay if you're patient.  I 
 want to save this one for the kid when he gets older he might want to 
 have his first computer, with it's antique windows 95, cd rom drive 
 (with no writing or dvd reading capability), and miniscule 2.5gb hard drive.

Yups, that sounds like it. 2159-Sxx series. Sound like yours is the first 
generation model with that cursed MWAVE modem. There was 2159-S80 and S90 models 
which were MMX, no MWAVE and slightly redesigned and much better IMO. 

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