First post, by Tempest
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I managed to save an IBM Industrial Computer 7585 from the junk pile at work today. It looks to be in amazing shape, I was acutally surprised at how clean it was inside considering it was meant to be on a plant floor (I don't think this ever was, I think it was in a lab all its life). I beleive it's an early Pentium 1 of some sort (P120 maybe) but I can't seem to find much if any info on it. It has one disk drive which works (I was able to boot to a DOS disk that was in it) and two hard drives (those seem to be dead or at least they don't have any bootable OS on them). It also has some sort of serial card in it and came with a nice industrial gray Model M keyboard and a PS/2 mouse (the original kind with those long oval buttons). All and all it's a pretty neat little system.
Can anyone tell me more about it? I'm kind of surprised at how little info there seems to be on it other than a system manual that was scanned in some years ago. Are these Industrial Systems worth anything? The manual seem to indicate that you needed special moutning hardware to add drives and such so that might make it a bit hard to upgrade. Not sure if I want to keep it considering I already have a Pentium 1 system, but it has that whole 'it's so ugly it's cute' thing going for it.
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