bobba84
Veteran Member
For those who might be interested in seeing what I have at home...
I am ashamed of how I am storing these machines at the moment, but we are having someone stay with us so only have the one spare room for everything. I also have a few Pentium-class machines in the store room at work, and a whole bunch of 80's IBM-compatible software packed away safely in their boxes.
There is also a complete early boxed commodore 64 (it has literally been used 9 times), and an amstrad PC1640 DD with a Tandon 10MB HH drive that I forgot to photograph.
Left: My IBM 64-256k 5160 with a WD20 and 384k memory expansion card.
Right: NEC APC IV (8MHz 286 with 640k / 20MEG / EGA), then a 5160 case with a 64-256k 5150 board in it (to keep it safe), then a clone XT with 640k and a slightly sad miniscribe 20meg.
My Mac Plus, it boots but once it warms up it reboots constantly, I will replace the caps on the power board when I find the time. Plus a bunch of parts I've picked up.
Top Shelf: My Mac SE with dual 800k drives and 20MB internal HDD, it works fine, and an SE/30 with a dead HDD. Bottom Shelf: My other Mac Plus that works, with it's aftermarket 20MB SCSI external drive sitting on top. In front is an ancient valve-driven oscilloscope that has some bad looking caps (I know not to try powering it on and am unsure of what to do with it at present)
My work bench. My 5170 that is 90% restored but still a little depressed, and my AMD 486 DX4/100 with 8MB and an 850MB Quantum.
A mess that my wife says I need to clean up. The XT case had a turbo clone board that worked until recently but the motherboard has stopped POST'ing. I haven't tried anything past swapping out RAM.
Well, that's my stuff. I have enjoyed the other posts in this section!
Bobby.
I am ashamed of how I am storing these machines at the moment, but we are having someone stay with us so only have the one spare room for everything. I also have a few Pentium-class machines in the store room at work, and a whole bunch of 80's IBM-compatible software packed away safely in their boxes.
There is also a complete early boxed commodore 64 (it has literally been used 9 times), and an amstrad PC1640 DD with a Tandon 10MB HH drive that I forgot to photograph.
Left: My IBM 64-256k 5160 with a WD20 and 384k memory expansion card.
Right: NEC APC IV (8MHz 286 with 640k / 20MEG / EGA), then a 5160 case with a 64-256k 5150 board in it (to keep it safe), then a clone XT with 640k and a slightly sad miniscribe 20meg.
My Mac Plus, it boots but once it warms up it reboots constantly, I will replace the caps on the power board when I find the time. Plus a bunch of parts I've picked up.
Top Shelf: My Mac SE with dual 800k drives and 20MB internal HDD, it works fine, and an SE/30 with a dead HDD. Bottom Shelf: My other Mac Plus that works, with it's aftermarket 20MB SCSI external drive sitting on top. In front is an ancient valve-driven oscilloscope that has some bad looking caps (I know not to try powering it on and am unsure of what to do with it at present)
My work bench. My 5170 that is 90% restored but still a little depressed, and my AMD 486 DX4/100 with 8MB and an 850MB Quantum.
A mess that my wife says I need to clean up. The XT case had a turbo clone board that worked until recently but the motherboard has stopped POST'ing. I haven't tried anything past swapping out RAM.
Well, that's my stuff. I have enjoyed the other posts in this section!
Bobby.
