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[SOLVED] Trying to identify a (probably bogus) computer

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First post, by Zup

Posted on 2017-04-18, 06:21

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Please, look at this image (from another forum). It's an ad from a bank that shows an unusual old computer, and we (at another forum) are trying to identify it.

Maybe it is a bogus computer, or a mashup from different elements from different computers not intended to work together.

- The monitor can be anything (where is the power button), even a TV set or a dumb terminal.
- The computer seems like an old XT, maybe a generic XT case.
- The keyboard seems interesting. Note the position of the F keys (and it has 14 of them), the position of the arrows and that it seems to have a "000" key on the numeric keypad. Maybe from another dumb terminal.

Can anyone help us to identify that thing?

Last edited by Zup on 2017-04-19, 05:46. Edited 1 time in total.

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Reply 1 of 6, by kixs

Posted on 2017-04-18, 06:46

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I, for one, can't see the image?!

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Reply 2 of 6, by vladstamate

Posted on 2017-04-18, 12:11

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The image is missing.

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Reply 3 of 6, by konc

Posted on 2017-04-18, 14:21

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I bet you need to be logged in in the other forum to see the image 😁

Reply 4 of 6, by DracoNihil

Posted on 2017-04-18, 18:35

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Please mirror the image in question to Imgur.

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Reply 5 of 6, by Jade Falcon

Posted on 2017-04-19, 01:16

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Better yet upload it here.

Reply 6 of 6, by Zup

Posted on 2017-04-19, 05:51

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Sorry, I didn't know the image won't load. I've replaced it with another link (I've been looking for the ad on the bank website but I haven't found it).

Someone has already identified it. The computer is not a mashup nor an old XT, but a east german made computer. It is a Robotron PC1715, and it was a Z80 based computer that ran its own version of CP/M. It even has its own entry on Wikipedia.

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