Identify old PC

John Foust jfoust at threedee.com
Fri Oct 19 07:41:02 CDT 2018


At 12:37 AM 10/19/2018, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>In a way, it resembles a Commodore PET but for the shape of the system
>unit, which looks like a CBM 4040 drive box.  Did such a box ever have
>the option for a 5.25" hard disk drive?

Is this a stumper?

CBM made a 8060 and 9090, also IEEE-488, 5 and 7 meg, single drive in a box.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_D9060

They would've had to have packed the SASI / 488 interface into
the same box.  The floppy board was already big.

http://www.nightfallcrew.com/30/10/2014/commodore-dual-drive-floppy-disk-model-4040-repair/

I checked my 2040.  Mine seems to be missing the upper sticker.

The box in the Reddit post doesn't quite look like the CBM box.
The CBM box has a large white metal area where the sticker goes.

The monitor in the post has the opposite color scheme of CBM.  
CBM was black on the bezel and white on the metal.

This was spotted in Joliet, Illinois.

- John



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