my 5150 and 5160 working (pics)

[Mike Chambers]

i got the complete 5160 machine delivered the other day, and my new 5150 motherboard showed up today to replace the dead one i had in my case. i'm excited to finally have some true original IBMs.

unfortunately i have no IBM monitors and only one IBM keyboard. these machines aren't anything super amazing, and definitely nothing you guys haven't seen before but i love them anyway.

click the pic for fullsize to read the 5150's screen.



the 5150:
-original i8088 CPU (from my dead 16-64 KB board, the new mobo came with no CPU)
-64-256 KB board loaded with 256
-AST SixPakPlus to bump it up to 640 KB and give it a RTC
-real IBM CGA card (not a clone)
-3Com 3C503 ethernet card
-IBM 360 KB floppy
-20 MB Everex MFM hard drive on a WD controller (but i need to replace the drive it suffers chronic stiction problems when it gets turned off after i get it working, thus why it booted into ROM BASIC there)


the 5160: (this baby's loaded)
-AMD 8088 CPU
-i8087 coproc
-loaded with 640 KB
-Sound Blaster Pro 2.0
-Seagate 30 MB RLL drive on WD controller
-CGA in the pic, but see below..
-clone NE1000 ethernet card
EDIT: forgot, it also has a "no-slot-clock" on the board, so it has an RTC



i decided to switch out the CGA with VGA in the 5160 though, since i would like to use it mostly for old games. this looks SO much better.

:inlove::inlove::inlove::inlove::inlove::inlove::inlove::inlove::inlove::inlove:

yeah, that's staying. :inlove:

 

[Shadow Lord]

:inlove::inlove::inlove::inlove::inlove::inlove::inlove::inlove::inlove::inlove:

yeah, that's staying. :inlove:

Me so jealous!

 

[Mike Chambers]

Me so jealous!

actually, the guy on eBay who i bought the 5160 from has more. it was only $95, and the shipping was free. i'm very happy with it. that doesn't guarantee the next one he sends will be as perfect as this, but he's got an excellent feedback score.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400184544746

 

[Shadow Lord]

Thanks for the linkage. Unfortunately the Mrs. is putting a serious kibosh on my System Purchases. Something about having a computer part store in the office . So until I clean up the office so we can walk around in it and get rid of the extras no more purchases for me. But at $95 w/ free S&H it is a steal... Did yours come w/ any cards inside (video, controller, etc?) or was it picked clean? Thanks!

 

[Mike Chambers]

Thanks for the linkage. Unfortunately the Mrs. is putting a serious kibosh on my System Purchases. Something about having a computer part store in the office . So until I clean up the office so we can walk around in it and get rid of the extras no more purchases for me. But at $95 w/ free S&H it is a steal... Did yours come w/ any cards inside (video, controller, etc?) or was it picked clean? Thanks!

ouch! my family is starting to get concerned with my hoarding as well, so i know what that's like. you should see our basement, even i'll admit it's kind of ridiculous the piles of computers and parts i have laying about. and no, it wasn't picked at all. everything was in there! upon arrival, it had CGA, parallel, hard drive/controller, floppy drive/controller, and even an RTC installed on the board.

 

[angel_grig]

Wow!The 5160 with VGA looks amazing!Me jealous too!

 

[EverythingIBM]

I never knew you could run a later Ultima like that on a 5160!!! I totally got to get an 8-bit VGA card later for mine.
Yes, nice IBMs.

 

[mikey99]

What brand/model 8-bit VGA card are you running in there ?

BTW noticed the seller had another 5160 listed, but says it has a dead PS. Probably
still a good deal for $99 shipped.

http://cgi.ebay.com/IBM-5160-Computer-System-Clean-Shape-Parts-Free-S-H-/150563486241?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item230e487a21