Recently posted a picture of this system in the dumpster find thread... after clearing the house some to accommodate the little one's new toys and a trip to the local recycling centre later. My better half allowed me to have this new toy for myself, and since I've never owned an XT before, this was gratefully accepted from the universe... thank you!

Truth be told, this actually required two trips to the centre... on the first trip finding the desktop base and keyboard. It was not until we got home and I had a proper look at it, that I realised this was no ordinary XT, no. This was an Amstrad 1512, that has proprietary PSU/14 DIN cable, proprietary CGA/9 DIN cable, and if that's not enough.... proprietary keyboard and mouse!

Ok, so I though to myself... I have the desktop... and I have a keyboard... ... ... somethings missing! 😒 ... So sure enough, another trip back to the centre, the day after finding the desktop... and very very luckily enough, there was the monitor, and cables... over near the TV area! It of course needed a new plug fitted which I did with my daughter watching, hopefully learning, to then put it all together to get...

Quite pleased with it considering it was a freebie! Unfortunate that the monitor is Monochrome... but I will of course not complain, just happy to find! Next step will be to upload system files onto the disk so that the system will boot and i'll look to get some games for it, earlier ones that will run... such as prince of Persia and Maniac Mansion. If anyone knows of any other games that will run on an XT... I'm all eyes!