View allAll Photos Tagged retrocomputing
IBM PS/2 E, a very compact design inside, on the right side there's the psu, the floppy drive and under the floppy there's the 2.5 ide disk drive, on the left side the quad pcmcia to isa adapter.
Unlike the Macintosh, the Apple IIGS carried on the hacker tradition of providing open expansion slots. The freedom of hardware expansion choice went away with the Mac; not surprisingly, I switched to PCs in 1992...they still had slot architectures, and that expansion capability has served the industry well.
I have no idea where the sticky brown goo came from (or even what it is exactly) but it has leaked down all over the tape drives and the front of the cabinet!
"We at Lynx are professionals, unlike Sinclair with their 9v barrel connector, so instead we use a DIN plug with a mixture of +5v, -5v and +12v"
IBM PS/2 E, inside the original IBM box, manual for the system, reference diskette, and all the original accessories shipped with the system.
E mais um ORIC ATMOS, este com uma interface controladora de disquetes alternativa e ligada a uma unidade de 3,5".
"You can and must understand computers NOW." -- Ted Nelson
More details: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Lib/Dream_Machines
This is possibly my oldest 5.25 diskette (disk 1 was destroyed somehow, or went bad during normal use). My first box of 10 diskettes cost something like US $30.00, and we had to buy them in Hong Kong (our family had moved to Taiwan from the US just as the Apple II was starting to become popular). The year was 1979.
Before booting these diskettes, I check them for mold...that will destroy a disk drive very quickly.