What a perfect time to stumble across this place.
One of my XT's(?) has a case which was horizontally split, and hinges in the back. The person I acquired it from told me it was his dad's development box from when he was with IBM. The split looks factory-original in its' precision. With that said, the case is a half-inch taller than a stock XT, using the original front bezel, so there's a half-inch opening on the bottom front. The rear plate is very similar in terms of screw locations etc, but taller at the top to accommodate the extra case height. The appearance is otherwise XT-specific, except there are no identifying plates on it anywhere.
Like much of my collection, it was acquired, stored and received little attention since I got it, against the day that my other hobbies waned enough to allow time for this one.
I haven't ripped it apart enough to be absolutely_sure it's a genuine IBM, and I don't know enough about the clones to know if such a hinged model was made by someone else. I have found a grand total of one picture of a similar case on the Internet.
Does anybody have any idea if this one's an original IBM? If so, does it have enough intrinsic interest that I should restore it to original and use another case for the resto-mod box I'm planning to build?
One of my XT's(?) has a case which was horizontally split, and hinges in the back. The person I acquired it from told me it was his dad's development box from when he was with IBM. The split looks factory-original in its' precision. With that said, the case is a half-inch taller than a stock XT, using the original front bezel, so there's a half-inch opening on the bottom front. The rear plate is very similar in terms of screw locations etc, but taller at the top to accommodate the extra case height. The appearance is otherwise XT-specific, except there are no identifying plates on it anywhere.
Like much of my collection, it was acquired, stored and received little attention since I got it, against the day that my other hobbies waned enough to allow time for this one.
I haven't ripped it apart enough to be absolutely_sure it's a genuine IBM, and I don't know enough about the clones to know if such a hinged model was made by someone else. I have found a grand total of one picture of a similar case on the Internet.
Does anybody have any idea if this one's an original IBM? If so, does it have enough intrinsic interest that I should restore it to original and use another case for the resto-mod box I'm planning to build?