IBM PC 330 - My latest aquisition

[Springbok]

Don't see many of these on the bay. I was looking for a 486 and found this. Finally a system that is not MCA, so I can have some fun with it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-IBM...lv1pk0kdXCOii4ekLawMs%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

Got the PC for $29, and the monitor for $19 (the original buyer of the monitor backed out). Seller let me send him pre-paid labels, so my total investment was $66 shipped. Pretty cool. He sent me pics of the '1" deep scratch". Turns out not to be that serious after all. (see pic)

 

[Caluser2000]

Good stuff. Have fun. Main thing is you're happy with it.

 

[pauls640]

Hello,

very nice hardware. In fact, I have the MB of that pc, and it's best 486 mobo I've ever used.

 

[Caluser2000]

Is it like the later PS/1 range with the VGA, ports etc built-in? Some folk seem to look down on the later non MCA IBM models but I've found my bitsa machine runs quite well compared to similar spec machines.

 

[Maverick1978]

I have one of the variants of this chassis model - mine has a 486 DX4-100 factory installed, and I've maxed the ram out at the full 128mb (just because I could). It takes a helluva long time to boot, but it's kind've cool to see it count that high

though tbh, I'll probably scale it back down to 32mb, as 128mb is just way overkill for the machine.

They're quite nice systems though - I'm the 2nd owner of mine, and I've had it for a little over a decade now. Still going strong!

 

[pauls640]

I have one of the variants of this chassis model - mine has a 486 DX4-100 factory installed, and I've maxed the ram out at the full 128mb (just because I could). It takes a helluva long time to boot, but it's kind've cool to see it count that high

though tbh, I'll probably scale it back down to 32mb, as 128mb is just way overkill for the machine.

They're quite nice systems though - I'm the 2nd owner of mine, and I've had it for a little over a decade now. Still going strong!

They are very fast systems. My dad used to run a 486DX4-100 with 64MB RAM and Windows NT 4.0, and always liked it. I remember I played Tomb Raider on that machine, it worked better than my P75.

Plus, since everything is onboard, you dont have to mess with VL.bus expansion cards, which cause a lot of trouble.

 

[Dave Farquhar]

My first non-retail, non-food service job was building and deploying a few hundred IBM PC 330s and 350s with 486DX2/50s in them. They were very good machines in every sense. We ran OS/2 3.0, Windows 95, and Windows NT 4.0 on them.

 

[Springbok]

Turns out the guy lives out in the boondocks in ID, so my shipping doubled. Still got the whole system for under $100 shipped though. Based on the comments made so far in this thread, I am really excited to get it.