Size comparison - it´s pretty big for a desktop:

This is how it looks now - added FDDs and Front Panels over HDD

Nice, clean design and a true IBM copycat. Does it have a network card? I find it handy for transferring files in pre usb systems... which this clearly is. 😀

not Networkcard but Modem card 😀

Used parallel null modem to get all the data from the harddrive, interesting bat files where createt - not much typing needed with this machine to navigate through the programs

I saw your's on Instagram. Before your post of this I never even knew the DeskPro 286 came in a gray faceplate version. It seems those are very very rare and usually DeskPro 386/20 or 386/25 models, till the insta I did not even know they made the 286 in this variation. So yours must be a later version of the 2551 and a practical unicorn. I had the earlier version with the black faceplate, may even still technically have it assuming it's still in the shed 2000 miles away.

Yes it´s a pretty late version I guess, when I first saw it I thought it looks pretty mid 80ies, Motherboard has 1987 on it, but it´s actually assembled Jan 1989 according to the stamp

Moravec wrote on 2022-02-23, 22:19:

Yes it´s a pretty late version I guess, when I first saw it I thought it looks pretty mid 80ies, Motherboard has 1987 on it, but it´s actually assembled Jan 1989 according to the stamp

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Mobo is as I remember it.
Wow, this is a nice memory lane episode 😀