dano
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I think I found a couple switchable XT or AT keyboards. Asking $5 each plus postage.
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84 key XT/AT keyboards
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dano
Experienced Member
Yikes, I don't know, I usually use UPS though work, I can see if I can figure it out tomorrow if you send me your postal code.
dano
Experienced Member
I found someone who's interested in them, so it looks like they are spoken for. I probably do have a couple AT/XT switchable 101 key keyboards if that's of any interest to you.
-Dan
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linuxlove
Veteran Member
I may pick one of the switching keyboards up off of ya if I can get another 8088.
dano
Experienced Member
Let me start by seeing what I can find stored away at home. Linuxlove: If I do infact have a couple extra keyboards, I can find you an 8088 motherboard too if you want 
I don't even have one 8088 system that isn't dead from the neglect of others (it's amazing how many 808x systems sat in closets letting their batteries explode :/ )... Unless you count my Tandy 1000 (very non-expandable) and my Sr. Partner (also, very unexpandable, as it's portable) - both of which have only one available 8-bit ISA. Oh and my useless (but cool) Zenith Supersport with no HDD or ISA at all. I'd really like to get one of the big ~8 slot machines. I have a case that had a 386 mounted in it, the case itself is a clone of the IBM AT case (not exactly the same aesthetically, but the same size and shape with big number of slots) that I could put an XT in.
If he doesn't want one or if you have more than one spare board I may be interested as well. ;D
If he doesn't want one or if you have more than one spare board I may be interested as well. ;D
linuxlove
Veteran Member
Oh I'm wanting another 8088 :D
MikeS
Veteran Member
I'm sure amazed, considering that except for laptops they didn't even have batteries unless there was a clock/MIO card with (usually) a button cell ;-)
Just how many _exploded_ batteries have you seen in 808x systems?
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Hrm, just one to be honest, but I've only come across two era (as opposed to my Tandy 1000, which was far later than 808x prime) 808x desktop systems, and since one of them died catastrophically due to exploding battery I figured a good number of them out there had. The one I have that's quite dead is a WPCbridge, a special 8088 with a Trackstar 128 Apple II card in it. Unfortunately I can't get drivers for said card, as the copy protection was too badass for anyone who had the disks back then, and nobody has ripped them more recently. Anywho, the WPCbridge had a big hulking battery the size of a D cell or so, and it kasploded all over the motherboard. Even after intensive cleaning the thing won't power on. Then again, I could always be horribly misremembering (memory is wonky at the ripe old age of 19... *fail*), but I'm pretty sure it was that machine.