wesleyfurr
Veteran Member
Dropped by the local recycling place yesterday to dispose of a couple of dead LCD monitors, and took a look at their pile of computers. They occasionally have something interesting, and will let you have it for $10. Well, I found this interesting beige IBM box with a floppy sticking out of the front of it that looked like something that would work in a PS/2. Figured that alone would be worth $10, so I brought it home. Looks like it is a remote terminal for AS/400, System/36, etc - connect it via a modem sort of connection, then string some twinax terminals off of it. The back only has power, a 25-pin serial-looking port, and three twinax connections. The inside has a simple circuit board with a 186 CPU and a 256kx36 RAM chip and the 3.5" 1.44Mb floppy, that does look like it could be removed and mounted on a PS/2 sled.
So here's the question...is it worth preserving? Sounds like an odd use case that likely wouldn't attract much interest in the current world, and no real way to modify it to do anything interesting, definitely not without a twinax terminal. There are a handful on ebay starting around $50 and none appear to have sold. I'm tempted to pull the floppy and RAM and dispose of the rest, but I also know what it feels like to hear someone else say that about something I would love to have still in one piece!
Thanks,
Wesley
So here's the question...is it worth preserving? Sounds like an odd use case that likely wouldn't attract much interest in the current world, and no real way to modify it to do anything interesting, definitely not without a twinax terminal. There are a handful on ebay starting around $50 and none appear to have sold. I'm tempted to pull the floppy and RAM and dispose of the rest, but I also know what it feels like to hear someone else say that about something I would love to have still in one piece!
Thanks,
Wesley