Got taken back a few years
Last night I while viewing videos, saw the latest from UXWBILL on Youtube and he showed us a recent purchase he'd made. It was an old IBM PS/2 desktop computer, model 50Z from 1985. He got it, I think from eBay, and from the original owner too, so he's the second owner of that machine, and it had been stored for a good long while in its original box even. He even drove up to Chicago to get it as he lives, i think about an hours drive or so south of the big city.
It was an old 286 PC that had been upgraded, and complete, though it lacked the original monitor and keyboard, but did have the original mouse though, and the locking keys for the case, which used to be common back in the day, and this was to prevent people from stealing components from within as they were all pricy back in the day. Anyway, he even had the little tool used to release the pins that held parts of the inside in place as the case was a true tooless design. as you needed NOTHING in the way of tools to disassemble the PC. Most tooless cases were only partially at best so at least a screwdriver was needed in some cases.
Anyway, it had, had a CPU upgrade, and a memory upgrade, both utilizing Kingston for the source components. A memory riser card was installed to upgrade the memory and I forget how much it had but the CPU was a Kingston clone that brought your 286 to 386/486 like performance, though not a *true* 386/486 performance, but more like them from the old 286 specs. The PC would have shipped with DOS 3.3, I think and had been upgraded to run Windows 3.1. Now it was seeing Win 3.1 in operation that took me back as I'd not seen the desktop for that old OS in years, like since the 1990's when I moved onto Win 95 back in, oh, 1997, or 98 to run on an old AST 486 I once had.
And in the pouch that came with the PC was an anti static bag that contained the original CPU and the puller that came with the new one! The case itself was in good condition and seemed to function just fine too.
Anyway, it was fun to see an old PC in action, especially since I was around when those things were brand, spanking new back in the day.
It was an old 286 PC that had been upgraded, and complete, though it lacked the original monitor and keyboard, but did have the original mouse though, and the locking keys for the case, which used to be common back in the day, and this was to prevent people from stealing components from within as they were all pricy back in the day. Anyway, he even had the little tool used to release the pins that held parts of the inside in place as the case was a true tooless design. as you needed NOTHING in the way of tools to disassemble the PC. Most tooless cases were only partially at best so at least a screwdriver was needed in some cases.
Anyway, it had, had a CPU upgrade, and a memory upgrade, both utilizing Kingston for the source components. A memory riser card was installed to upgrade the memory and I forget how much it had but the CPU was a Kingston clone that brought your 286 to 386/486 like performance, though not a *true* 386/486 performance, but more like them from the old 286 specs. The PC would have shipped with DOS 3.3, I think and had been upgraded to run Windows 3.1. Now it was seeing Win 3.1 in operation that took me back as I'd not seen the desktop for that old OS in years, like since the 1990's when I moved onto Win 95 back in, oh, 1997, or 98 to run on an old AST 486 I once had.
And in the pouch that came with the PC was an anti static bag that contained the original CPU and the puller that came with the new one! The case itself was in good condition and seemed to function just fine too.
Anyway, it was fun to see an old PC in action, especially since I was around when those things were brand, spanking new back in the day.