Replica IBM 5150 PC motherboard

Adrian Graham binarydinosaurs at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 10:02:53 CST 2018


> If I didn't already have a couple 5150s (and a nice 5160 I recently
> acquired and repaired), I'd consider this board, but $150 will buy
> other cool vintage toys so I'm going to pass.

Ditto. A fun project nonetheless.

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On 9 March 2018 at 15:53, Ethan Dicks via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 10:04 AM, geneb via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 Mar 2018, Marc Howard via cctalk wrote:
> >
> >> Umm, I'm missing something here.  It can't possibly be $149.50 as listed
> >> on
> >> the webpage.  I would think that would be the price for the bare board
> if
> >> anything.
> >>
> > As far as I know, it's a complete kit.  It's been the same price since
> it's
> > introduction 3+ years ago.
>
> "You will receive all the components to build a PC Motherboard exactly
> as shown here:"
>
> If I didn't already have a couple 5150s (and a nice 5160 I recently
> acquired and repaired), I'd consider this board, but $150 will buy
> other cool vintage toys so I'm going to pass.
>
> If someone wanted to pay me to do the assembly, that would be kinda
> fun.  I can get through several movies soldering that many joints.
>
> -ethan
>


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