First post, by digitaldrifter
I just scored two machines off of ebay. They should be coming this week.
The first is close to my first computer. It's a Tandy 2500 SX/20. (My old one was an SX/33.) It looks like it has 5 megs of RAM, along with an 85mb hard drive, CDROM, and a network card. The pics were a bit blurry, so I hope the exterior is ok. I don't have a ton of use for it, more for a nostalgia piece, but I'm sure I'll try to get some old school stuff running on it, like SWOTL or the like.
The second one is an IBM Valuepoint 433 SX/D. It is bare-bones; no expansion cards, no CDROM, only a 245MB hard drive (but comes with an extra 527mb), and 4mb of ram. It has ISA slots and one VESA slot available, and the onboard video is on the VLB. I think I'll get a few extras for it off of ebay. I already got my NEW Evergreen 133 in the mail last week, so that'll be the first thing going into it. I think I'll order some RAM for it, and maybe a VESA IDE controller for some extra speed. I'm a bit worried about the BIOS not being able to support large HD's though, since I may throw in the 2gb drive that's currently in my P166 system.
Neither of these have sound cards, unfortunately. I do have an SB32 lying around, but I don't think it's even been plugged in to anything since 1998 and I've been pretty rough with it over the years. Hopefully it still works. I'm not sure on what to put into the Tandy since most of the cheapo sound cards on ebay seem to be PnP, and I don't know how they'll work in a non-PnP machine.
Anyways, I'll update this as I get them in and upgraded. These will compliment my other two retro systems nicely!