Hey /g/ Found these at recycler. Which things should I take home?

take the keyboard and chuck the rest of that shit back in the trash

The keyboard.

As much as you possibly can. If you can only save one system, make sure it is the XT.

>>61769419
Fuck you.

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>>61769437
So the xt? What about the rest?

Save the PS/2 so you can mail the floppy drive to me because I can't repair drives worth a shit nor I can either solder.

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Anything worth in here?

>>61769495
if you're going to get the XT, the RTC card with the battery on it is worthy enough...

I wonder what's the card behind it though.

>>61769495
>blue alps keyboard
Take that shit. You are very very lucky.

>>61769399
>tfw agree with others for keyboard
Am I finally /g/ techhy approved?

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>>61769531
Explain

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?

>>61769571
20 MB winchester. This is a BEAST

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The Mexicans arrived and are clearing House.
Atleast I got some good shit.

What do I do with this /g/?

>>61769944
check them double dubs

Take the case and mod it.

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>>61769944
Use IRC in style, play old games, install Linux on them, etc.

>>61769723
>Model F
Hell yes.

>>61769620
Is this bait? you found a container full of rare mechanical keyboards? wtf OP

>>61769462
That IBM XT goes on eBay for at least $350.

>>61769495
the hard drive might also be worth it. assuming the heads haven't crashed from the rough handling

>>61770818
They were membrane so I didn't take them :)

>>61770854
I'm going to power wash the case later.
Dirty as heck.
If anyone remembers, I was the Anon who showed my other friend the recycling place and we power washed two ibm model f's

>>61770893
I left, the hard drives were old, probably not worth it

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>>61771043
>Power washing a computer

>>61771087
A keyboard.
It worked fine afterwards.
I'll try to post webm's later :)

Now the computer, I would only power wash the casing lol. I'm not a retard

>>61769495
>blue alps keyboard

Forget the keeb. It's outdated shit.

>>61769399
Anyone have a link to the archive of >>61771043?

>>61771765
I'll make webm's in a few hours

>>61700289

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Reminder that I got the best IBM product OP

>>61772350
>>61771765
>>61771087
>>61771043

>>61774771

>>61770854
Fucking retard, that would be a top notch system in box. Even then 350 is stretching it.

>>61769495
Is that a Bichin' fast 3D?

>>61774824
Looks more like some CGA card.

>>61769495
Extremely rare keyboard albeit disgusting but still blue alps

>>61769399
>the color of the whites
HUNNNGGGG
Its not all yellow, nice finds

>>61769399
Give it back, Zack.

>>61774847
PS/2's don't yellow
XT's are painted

>>61769540
>>61771670
>>61769540
That's not a blue Alps keyboard you goons, just because one switch looks like that, it literally has a membrane under it

>>61774852
oh. some of my metal cases are really yellow compared to those

>>61774916
smokers and not natural UV yellowing

>>61769399
What keyboard?

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XT is the most valuable
thats an 8086 ps/2 (i just got one a few days ago), theyre uncommon but not turbo rare and not worth too much money, especially not with parts missing

the keyboard isnt anything special, but you'd probably want one for the xt

the tower is neat, but again, not that special

>>61774957
What can you even do with such an old computer?

>>61774849
/

>>61774841
Nothing a little power washing won't fix ;)
>>61774771

>>61774934
IBM model F, XT version

>>61774978
Everything you could back in the day. What kind of stupid question is that, underage much?

>>61774957
> especially not with parts missing
the 40-pin floppy drives though. Literally nobody sells them online without private buy or trade

>>61774920
>not natural UV yellowing
tfw tanning beds give computers cancer too

>>61774984
>IBM model F, XT version
Very cool, thanks man. I wish I could find a similar setup.

>>61774978
when i get around to making some 720k floppies (literally just googled how to format a 1.44mb into 720k) im gonna load it up with PC DOS, and probably some office programs and stuff.
I dont have any ISA video cards or sound cards so no games until i get those, it also may need more than the stock 640k of ram

its not so much of keeping it around for what it can do, its more of keeping it around for the sake of preservation
its in really good shape and id like to keep it around a showpiece
>>61775005
those proprietary connections are a pain in the ass, they require a pretty annoying adapter or a whole new floppy disk controller and new floppy drives if shit doesnt work

>>61775030
>it also may need more than the stock 640k of ram
Not really, you're not going to run any newer games on that 8086 anyways

>>61775030
>they require a pretty annoying adapter or a whole new floppy disk controller and new floppy drives if shit doesnt work
Even worse.

I have a Model 70, where a new drive controller is impossible because all my slots are MCA, and all my floppy drives that fit in the thing are long gone, in butchered state.

Since I can't boot into the Reference Disk without a floppy drive, this machine is pretty much worthless. Hence why I gaze over with jealousy at those who have working PS/2's

>>61775055
There are MCA floppy drive controls on eBay from time to time

>>61775030
>when i get around to making some 720k floppies (literally just googled how to format a 1.44mb into 720k) im gonna load it up with PC DOS
If you're going to use a machine with a 1.44MB drive, just write the image on them with rawrite or related. You don't even need to format them.
Heck, you probably don't even have DD floppies, you can write the image in a 1.44MB drive even without covering up the 720KB hole, you still should though.

>>61774861
It's a Focus rebrand. Those might be TW/Omron clones or something instead but it's a mech board.

>>61775085
ive got some 1.44mb floppies, and ive got a bunch of 1mb floppies with ironically, PC-DOS 5.0
the full setup and boot disk too
RIP me

my thinkpad 380ED is old enough where i should be able to format some 1.44mb ones as 720k, if not i can just do it on the G40 via command prompt
that also makes things easier because i can actually download things on that PC, i dont have the ethernet card for the 380ED anymore so i have to move things to it via floppy

>>61775060
the point I'm making is that to configure an MCA card to be recognized at all, you have to use the reference disk.

No drives, no way, well... I'm in a big pothole, I guess.

>>61775133
You sure? Doesn't it at first pick it up as a single 720KB drive and you can go on from there?

>>61775123
>my thinkpad 380ED is old enough where i should be able to format some 1.44mb ones as 720k
All 1.44MB drives can format 720KB floppies. Some USB controllers can't.
Just use a DOS or Windows floppy writing software and get PC DOS images of off winworldpc.

It's literally a 20 minute job, I can't imagine why you haven't done it already.

>>61775173
because im lazy, i gotta dig out the 380ED, gotta get my 1.44mb floppies, gotta do the command prompt format thing on top of the tape trick to make them into 720k disks, then i gotta load em up with all the PC-DOS files, which is a pain on its own, i also need the config disk

its just a matter of "i cant be assed to spend 20 minutes setting up old computers"

>>61769399
Take everything

A E S T H E T I C S

>>61769399
keyboard and keyboard alone.

>found
Give them back Tyrone

>>61769399
Please stop hoarding garbage, Anon.

>>61779537
I know, I should stop.
My house is very clean though so it ain't that bad