Attached is the picture but was in a rural town in Japan and visited the Hard Off thrift store. Mostly was there for the cheap video games but I was hoping to find some vintage computers. As you see in the picture they had an old P3 IBM desktop for what was essentially less than $20. I don't really think I could have put it safely in luggage to check at the airport so I had to leave it but I wanted to share my find.
giantclam wrote on 2023-10-04, 01:17:
Is this a Japan-centric desktop-form-factor version of the "Acer" Aptiva K6ses of the 1998ish era time period?
Great price if it works ! Where were you flying to ? I am one of those odd ones that under your circumstance might have bought it and stripped the cpu, ram, hd, cdrom and floppy out and fly home with them in my luggage.....those alone are worth X times the $20
Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun
If it was something I really wanted, I'd have thought "Hey, I'm in a thrift store, where do they put the luggage?..." and gone to see about a suitcase that it fit into and a few pairs of cheap jeans to roll up and wedge it in place.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.
Man I'm envious, I've wanted to go to Japan and visit the Hard Off stores for a long time. I used to follow a YouTube channel of a couple of guys who live there and record their visits to the stores. It's crazy how much video game stuff you can find over there.
Great find for the money, but under the circumstances I'd have left it too.
I'd be filling my suitcase with Japanese game console stuff that isn't likely to be found in my home country. 😀
giantclam wrote on 2023-10-04, 01:17:
thank you for finding this, I don't know why I thought it was a P3. Maybe It's the jetlag talking 🤣.
Horun wrote on 2023-10-04, 01:45:Great price if it works ! Where were you flying to ? I am one of those odd ones that under your circumstance might have bought it and stripped the cpu, ram, hd, cdrom and floppy out and fly home with them in my luggage.....those alone are worth X times the $20
This was in a small town in Hakone.
VivienM wrote on 2023-10-04, 01:41:giantclam wrote on 2023-10-04, 01:17:Is this a Japan-centric desktop-form-factor version of the "Acer" Aptiva K6ses of the 1998ish era time period?
Yeah, the JP market was a different thang... the example OP found is a really nice kitsch example with the sky blue facia highlights =)
thenix wrote on 2023-10-04, 08:56:giantclam wrote on 2023-10-04, 01:17:thank you for finding this, I don't know why I thought it was a P3. Maybe It's the jetlag talking 🤣.
No probs...might not be jetlag ; for sure the Aptiva label was marketed in JP a bit like the rest of the world, with the same model available in AMD or Intel CPU guises
