Yzzerdd
Veteran Member
Thought I'd start a seperate thread to showcase what all I've gotten from the trip I made to KY(Kentucky). Decided it'd be neater to do that than to have a messy discussion on the previous thread I'd been using. Lets begin.
First off, here is a link to all the pictures I may have regarding the items I picked up from KY. Use them as a reference should you need to as I ramble. Link
Today I assembled a fully restored IBM PC AT. It looks great and performs perfectly. Actually, I shouldn't say FULLY restored. I need to hookup a backup battery. I have to run setup information every time I boot. Nevertheless, a cool system.
I scrubbed the dirt off the case, and gave it an IBM CGA card, instead of the MDA that was in it. I guess I need to add a printer card as well. I replaced the 1.2MB drive A: in it with one that would've been in a stock IBM AT, and cleaned the 360K drive B:.
The HDD had non-DOS partitions, who knows what O/S was on it...maybe Linux or something. Either way, thanks to a Microsoft Document, I was able to use debug to remove the partitions, then FDISK it into a DOS partition. Formatting as I added DOS 3.3 was also part of the procedure. No bad sectors or any bad spots whatsoever! Yayy!
I still need to clean the keyboard, though. I'll do that this weekend. Until then, enjoy the picture of my IBM PC AT. Oh, because I didn't use flash, the color is a little off on my cheap-ass camera. The drives and keyboard were selected carefully, and everything is actually the original colors. My drives are grey, not brown.
Pic
--Jack
First off, here is a link to all the pictures I may have regarding the items I picked up from KY. Use them as a reference should you need to as I ramble. Link
Today I assembled a fully restored IBM PC AT. It looks great and performs perfectly. Actually, I shouldn't say FULLY restored. I need to hookup a backup battery. I have to run setup information every time I boot. Nevertheless, a cool system.
I scrubbed the dirt off the case, and gave it an IBM CGA card, instead of the MDA that was in it. I guess I need to add a printer card as well. I replaced the 1.2MB drive A: in it with one that would've been in a stock IBM AT, and cleaned the 360K drive B:.
The HDD had non-DOS partitions, who knows what O/S was on it...maybe Linux or something. Either way, thanks to a Microsoft Document, I was able to use debug to remove the partitions, then FDISK it into a DOS partition. Formatting as I added DOS 3.3 was also part of the procedure. No bad sectors or any bad spots whatsoever! Yayy!
I still need to clean the keyboard, though. I'll do that this weekend. Until then, enjoy the picture of my IBM PC AT. Oh, because I didn't use flash, the color is a little off on my cheap-ass camera. The drives and keyboard were selected carefully, and everything is actually the original colors. My drives are grey, not brown.
Pic
--Jack