I got a bit carried away when I saw this on the local ‘bays – an IBM PS/1. 286 10Mhz and complete, although that might not be the original mouse. The PC works OK, I’m surprised that the CRT looks as good as it does after all those years but bloody hell, I don’t know how anyone could have used Windows on these things. My eyeballs felt like they were melting after 5 mins. Shipping cost me way too much and I realised – after some research – that this is the 2011 model with NO ISA slots. No Sound Blaster upgrades for this thing. That’s probably OK though, I bought it for early text adventures, etc.
The keyboard is in pretty bad shape unfortunately. It’s causing the PC to throw a few errors on boot and several keys seem to be missing the buckle spring completely, so although it’s in good cosmetic condition, I’ll have my work cut out getting it to work as it should. Note that it's NOT the Model M2 keyboard it came with in the first picture, that's just another cheap PS2 which works fine with it.
All told it’s a very stylish little unit and I’ll learn to love it.
And I picked this up pretty cheaply the other day – the famous DB50XG. I was interested to see on the box that the Sound Blaster 16 is the recommended card to use it with, which makes me wonder – as I’ve done in the past – what the big deal is around here with the hanging note bug. Surely Yamaha would have put in a caveat to say “*you may experience hanging notes with SB16 cards” if it was as bad as all that. Anyway I put it on my SB16 and it sounds very nice.
