Brought home a lot of goodies over the weekend, a few things I'd been looking for and hope to get working well. 😊
- Generic minitower with fairly basic socket 7 system inside. Aureal Vortex sound card, but otherwise not really interesting. It was really cheap and I practically bought it for the case.
- "BAS PC" clone desktop. Nabbed this system purely for the cool factor, that case is kickass! 😲 Missing the disk drives, but shouldn't be too hard to find replacements. 8088 CPU, turns on and beeps but I have not tried a video test yet. Not sure about the RAM amount.
- IBM PC XT. Pretty rough shape, rusty and missing the hard drive, but otherwise complete. Has some kind of 286 accelerator card inside clipped to the CPU socket, I plan on investigating further. Considering stripping the top and repainting it some gaudy, non-IBM color for the laughs.
- Amiga 2000. This was one of my wishlist machines, so I'm pretty psyched I finally got one! Absolutely bone stock, appears to have never been upgraded. Mild battery damage, the CPU appears to be pretty heavily corroded and the machine did not boot when I power tested it. This will require some trace repair, but nothing I can't handle.
- Sun Ultra 10. Not going to lie, I'm not at all familiar with Sun gear. However, it was $10 and came with the proprietary keyboard/mouse, so I couldn't pass it up. Someone evidently replaced the stock IDE drive with a 10K SCSI drive with the cable routed out the back, since the SCSI card only had an external port. If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid. 🤣
I also got a bit of stuff not pictured:
- 3x Power Mac 7200. All of them are missing the CD and hard drives, so I will likely just part them out, since the plastics are in poor shape. They've led hard lives.
- iMac G3, 400 MHz. Also in really poor shape, appears to have been dragged on its side, plastics broken, etc. Also picked this system up for the parts, but after adding some RAM, it actually does turn on and boot into Mac OS! Some relatively serious monitor issues, it looks like only the red gun works on the CRT and there's some substantial smearing, but I'm surprised it turned on at all.
- TI-99/4A + cassette deck. Boxed, plus some games.
- Atari 400. Rough shape, but it was a freebie, and I didn't have one. 🤣
- The parts from a dual Pentium III server. The case was so huge I couldn't fit it in my car, so I took the parts and left the case. Two 1000/133 socket 370 CPUs on MSI slockets and 1 GB of ECC RAM. I'm thinking I might build a Windows 2000 machine from them.
- Misc parts: MFM hard drive controller, three Apple Extended Keyboards, misc. Amiga software.
Hoping to start working on this stuff as soon as I finish some other projects currently taking up my time like restoring a vintage Zenith television set. I will post updates soon, might make a thread on it. 😀