First post, by keenmaster486
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Okay, so it's not "maxed out" as in it has the best specced parts you could possibly cram in there, but it's fairly well maxed out for its particular class of machine, i.e. 286 with EGA in the 1980's.
System Specs:
Intel 286 6MHz (seems to have been overclocked to 8 MHz at some point)
EGA graphics
IBM 5153 Personal Computer Color Display
IBM Model F keyboard
640K base RAM + 2 MB XMS/EMS
5 1/4 inch floppy drive
3 1/2 inch floppy drive
30 MB hard disk drive
Yamaha YMF-719 sound card
3Com 3C509 ethernet card
It appears to have the original hard drive controller. Not sure if the drive itself is original.
I really lucked out on this one. I found the machine itself, along with the keyboard, at a recycle center for $10. The monitor was the one thing I could not find, but finally got one for $200 at an antique store. That's fine, I guess. It works great. I wanted a 5154 but those are even more hard to come by, and by all accounts seem to be less reliable. I don't really use the high resolution EGA modes anyway.
The output of CHKDSK is pasted below.
Volume DOSDISK created 01-04-2020 6:09p
Volume Serial Number is 19E4-1727
Errors found, F parameter not specified
Corrections will not be written to disk
2 lost allocation units found in 2 chains.
4096 bytes disk space would be freed
31768576 bytes total disk space
73728 bytes in 2 hidden files
131072 bytes in 59 directories
24600576 bytes in 1014 user files
6959104 bytes available on disk
2048 bytes in each allocation unit
15512 total allocation units on disk
3398 available allocation units on disk
655360 total bytes memory
626000 bytes free
YouTube video of the machine: https://youtu.be/5HceSLLqG6A
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