5150 Full height drive bay face plates

[gkavner]

I know many doubt that IBM ever actually sold a single 5150-001 (16Kb, no floppy, cassette only, TV out), it makes me wonder whether the face plates that presumably covered the empty drive bays were ever available as an off the shelf part. Has anyone actually seen them or have a picture?

Thanks.

 

[Stone]

You mean this? It's a FH drive bay cover plate.

 

[pearce_jj]

a while back there was a project to get some reproduction covers made - I think it ended up being too expensive.

 

[geoffm3]

Were they completely blank, or were they molded to look like the face of a real diskette drive?

 

[gkavner]

You mean this? It's a FH drive bay cover plate.

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Interesting there is no IBM logo on that plate. Is it genuine IBM? It appears to have the same grainy surface of the XT HDD faceplate.

 

[Beerhunter]

They were blank. We have just one in our museum.

BTW, they didn't just come with the Cassette only model. (Never available in EMEA.) All diskette equipped PCs came from the factory one drive installed and a blanking plate.

 

[modem7]

See http://www.minuszerodegrees.net/5150/dcp/5150_disk_cover_plate.htm

 

[SpidersWeb]

They were blank. We have just one in our museum.

BTW, they didn't just come with the Cassette only model. (Never available in EMEA.) All diskette equipped PCs came from the factory one drive installed and a blanking plate.

Yep, my twin drive 5150 even came with two blanking plates - and it's a 1987 model. Not sure if they shipped with it new, but I always suspected so.

 

[Stone]

Interesting there is no IBM logo on that plate. Is it genuine IBM? It appears to have the same grainy surface of the XT HDD faceplate.

Yes, it has the same number (110312 / 2) on the inside surface as the one in the pic on modem7's site.