Reply 40 of 50, by FAMICOMASTER
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Hey hey, I used to have a PS/1 just like that! It was a 486SX/33, and I could never get it work worth a damn. Never boot from diskette, never boot from onboard ATA, never boot from an MFM/RLL/SCSI card... It would get into setup but no further. Eventually, it quit putting a picture on the screen and I junked the case and power supply. I have the board and riser somewhere if anybody needs it.
Also, on topic...
I bought an IBM AT. A real 8MHz 512K AT, almost brand new. It was packed insanely well, Styrofoam everywhere, wrapped in bubble wrap, the Styrofoam was wrapped in bubble wrap, there were packing peanuts and newspapers everywhere, it was double boxed, too!
Arrived completely broken. Damn UPS must have thrown it against a wall or something, they completely bent the case, even the slightly rounded corners were folded inwards. This thing saw some HARD impact. Luckily, the board was okay, but the hard disk drive was not as lucky. Platters were shattered. I can hear glass inside it if I move it around a bit. Poor ST-4038, it was the original drive to this machine, even! At least the metalwork was easy...
Oh yeah, I bought a used junk computer for parts, listed as "Turbo Beltron." It showed up in a loosely taped cardboard box with about 6 packing peanuts and last week's newspaper strewn about. Not a scratch on the machine.
Tl;dr: UPS absolutely decimated my poor IBM AT, despite it being packed extremely well, but FedEx didn't do any damage to a Taiwanese clone that was barely packed at all.