Great XT-clone with physical turbo button. Unit was in rough shape when arrived; FDD, HDD, speaker dead. Filthy inside & out. Must have been used in a machine shop or something. Waiting on one of Glitch's XT-IDE rev.3 boards to finish the job. Now, the pics:
Full album:
A few samples:
Beautiful! I love how shiny the sheet metal on the inside turned out - no pitting or rusting of any kind. Did you retrobright the front piece or is it just a color balance thing?
I assume you used some metal polish on the PSU, how did you protect/preserve the labels?
That LCD monitor is just for testing, right? 🙄
Yes, it was indeed fortunate that there was not any major rusting within the unit. I did retrobright the bezel and it is almost as close as the images. For the monitor it would be nice to have an EGA display for this one, but I could also use one of my 5153's as it works with the included EGA card.
Really nice machine! kudos!
Nice clean rebuild! awesome. Personally i dont like the floppy emulator..
~ At least it can do black and white~
Cleaned up very nice indeed!
Was the 5 1/4 drive dead or is it just that you dont need it as you have the Gotek?
I'm not sure what I prefur the traditinal look with the drive or the clean lines without
Nice job!
Yes, the included Mitsumi V503 was DOA. No surprise as I have two others in my CompuAdd that died as well. Maybe it is the little ribbon cable? Anyway, I just wanted to get familiar with the Gotek and it works great. It even works with my .td0 images, and the load times are great. In the absence of the HDD, had to make a bootable USB stick as well. Also, many thanks to bjt for his HxC file manager, it is an excellent interface.
I've found bad capacitors causing problems on vintage floppy drives more than once, they didn't look physically bad (bloating or leaking) but replacing them brought the drives back to life.
