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  • Auction: Vintage IBM Personal System/2 PS/2 486DX2 Type 9577 Personal C

    From Tomas Slavotinek@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 11 16:40:27 2022
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/385055377360

    BIN+MAO

    1.2 MB FDD, CD-ROM drive w/ bezel, loose XGA-2 adapter? (judging by the stickers), Ethernet/A?

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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Tomas Slavotinek on Thu Aug 11 07:45:37 2022
    Bermuda.

    Tomas Slavotinek wrote:
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/385055377360

    BIN+MAO

    1.2 MB FDD, CD-ROM drive w/ bezel, loose XGA-2 adapter? (judging by the stickers), Ethernet/A?

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  • From Tomas Slavotinek@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Thu Aug 11 16:56:02 2022
    Yup.

    Hopefully they didn't damage something by powering the system on with
    the adapter not seated correctly...

    On 11.08.2022 16:45, Louis Ohland wrote:
    Bermuda.

    Tomas Slavotinek wrote:
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/385055377360

    BIN+MAO

    1.2 MB FDD, CD-ROM drive w/ bezel, loose XGA-2 adapter? (judging by
    the stickers), Ethernet/A?


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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Tomas Slavotinek on Thu Aug 11 08:25:04 2022
    Not sure if that would do much damage.

    Tomas Slavotinek wrote:
    Yup.

    Hopefully they didn't damage something by powering the system on with
    the adapter not seated correctly...

    On 11.08.2022 16:45, Louis Ohland wrote:
    Bermuda.

    Tomas Slavotinek wrote:
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/385055377360

    BIN+MAO

    1.2 MB FDD, CD-ROM drive w/ bezel, loose XGA-2 adapter? (judging by
    the stickers), Ethernet/A?



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  • From Tomas Slavotinek@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Thu Aug 11 17:42:28 2022
    It shouldn't, unless you end up with some rare scenario - like part of
    the edge connector being offset by 1 or 2 pins - no direct shorts to
    ground and the two supply voltages appearing where they aren't supposed to.

    Seeing the bent tab on the other adapter tells me the video card was
    probably never secured correctly in the first place...

    On 11.08.2022 17:25, Louis Ohland wrote:
    Not sure if that would do much damage.

    Tomas Slavotinek wrote:
    Yup.

    Hopefully they didn't damage something by powering the system on with
    the adapter not seated correctly...

    On 11.08.2022 16:45, Louis Ohland wrote:
    Bermuda.

    Tomas Slavotinek wrote:
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/385055377360

    BIN+MAO

    1.2 MB FDD, CD-ROM drive w/ bezel, loose XGA-2 adapter? (judging by
    the stickers), Ethernet/A?



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  • From RickE@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 11 16:49:55 2022
    Selling with a significant price tag, but can't even be bothered to run a damp rag over the case to clean it up a bit for the photo shoot -- sad.

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Aug 11 20:09:31 2022
    On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 16:40:27 +0200, Tomas Slavotinek
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/385055377360

    BIN+MAO

    1.2 MB FDD, CD-ROM drive w/ bezel, loose XGA-2 adapter? (judging by the >stickers), Ethernet/A?

    1.44 diskette. He doesn't mention any memory sticks or hard drive so I
    am guessing they are missing. He also didn't say anything about a POST
    code, just that it seems to power on so I bet this thing is deader
    than disco.
    One of those adapters is strange to me, the BNC connector and a 15 pin
    D shell? WTF?

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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Aug 11 20:04:42 2022
    AUI connector for thick ethernet. See the sliding bracket? BNC and AUI,
    common ports on 10 Mbit.

    [email protected] wrote:
    On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 16:40:27 +0200, Tomas Slavotinek
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/385055377360

    BIN+MAO

    1.2 MB FDD, CD-ROM drive w/ bezel, loose XGA-2 adapter? (judging by the
    stickers), Ethernet/A?

    1.44 diskette. He doesn't mention any memory sticks or hard drive so I
    am guessing they are missing. He also didn't say anything about a POST
    code, just that it seems to power on so I bet this thing is deader
    than disco.
    One of those adapters is strange to me, the BNC connector and a 15 pin
    D shell? WTF?


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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 12 00:11:24 2022
    On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 20:04:42 -0700, Louis Ohland <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    AUI connector for thick ethernet. See the sliding bracket? BNC and AUI, >common ports on 10 Mbit.

    OK thanks. We never used them. IBM was token ring but usually our PC
    was plugged into the internal IBM network through a 3270 port or dial
    up if we were on the road. I still think that was a whole lot more
    secure than anything they do now.

    [email protected] wrote:
    On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 16:40:27 +0200, Tomas Slavotinek
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/385055377360

    BIN+MAO

    1.2 MB FDD, CD-ROM drive w/ bezel, loose XGA-2 adapter? (judging by the
    stickers), Ethernet/A?

    1.44 diskette. He doesn't mention any memory sticks or hard drive so I
    am guessing they are missing. He also didn't say anything about a POST
    code, just that it seems to power on so I bet this thing is deader
    than disco.
    One of those adapters is strange to me, the BNC connector and a 15 pin
    D shell? WTF?


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  • From Tomas Slavotinek@21:1/5 to RickE on Fri Aug 12 10:02:18 2022
    On 12.08.2022 1:49, RickE wrote:
    Selling with a significant price tag, but can't even be bothered to run a damp rag over the case to clean it up a bit for the photo shoot -- sad.

    Yeah, or open the machine and show the guts... Some sellers just don't care.

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  • From Tomas Slavotinek@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Aug 12 10:20:20 2022
    Yeah, like I mentioned the adapter looks like the Ethernet Adapter/A or
    SMC 8013. But it's hard to tell for sure...

    On 12.08.2022 6:11, [email protected] wrote:
    On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 20:04:42 -0700, Louis Ohland <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    AUI connector for thick ethernet. See the sliding bracket? BNC and AUI,
    common ports on 10 Mbit.

    OK thanks. We never used them. IBM was token ring but usually our PC
    was plugged into the internal IBM network through a 3270 port or dial
    up if we were on the road. I still think that was a whole lot more
    secure than anything they do now.

    [email protected] wrote:
    On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 16:40:27 +0200, Tomas Slavotinek
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/385055377360

    BIN+MAO

    1.2 MB FDD, CD-ROM drive w/ bezel, loose XGA-2 adapter? (judging by the >>>> stickers), Ethernet/A?

    1.44 diskette. He doesn't mention any memory sticks or hard drive so I
    am guessing they are missing. He also didn't say anything about a POST
    code, just that it seems to power on so I bet this thing is deader
    than disco.
    One of those adapters is strange to me, the BNC connector and a 15 pin
    D shell? WTF?



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  • From Tomas Slavotinek@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Aug 12 10:22:13 2022
    There are two floppy drives in the machine - 3.5" 2.88 MB manual eject
    and 5.25" 1.2 MB electronic eject.

    I don't think they even bothered opening the machine, let alone trying
    to diagnose it. But you never know... some ebay sellers intentionally
    hide facts (not accusing anyone, I have no past experience with this
    person).

    On 12.08.2022 2:09, [email protected] wrote:
    On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 16:40:27 +0200, Tomas Slavotinek
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/385055377360

    BIN+MAO

    1.2 MB FDD, CD-ROM drive w/ bezel, loose XGA-2 adapter? (judging by the
    stickers), Ethernet/A?

    1.44 diskette. He doesn't mention any memory sticks or hard drive so I
    am guessing they are missing. He also didn't say anything about a POST
    code, just that it seems to power on so I bet this thing is deader
    than disco.
    One of those adapters is strange to me, the BNC connector and a 15 pin
    D shell? WTF?


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  • From Alexandros@21:1/5 to Tomas Slavotinek on Fri Aug 12 19:31:17 2022
    Tomas Slavotinek <[email protected]> wrote:
    There are two floppy drives in the machine - 3.5" 2.88 MB manual eject
    and 5.25" 1.2 MB electronic eject.

    I don't think they even bothered opening the machine, let alone trying
    to diagnose it. But you never know... some ebay sellers intentionally
    hide facts (not accusing anyone, I have no past experience with this
    person).

    On 12.08.2022 2:09, [email protected] wrote:
    On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 16:40:27 +0200, Tomas Slavotinek
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/385055377360

    BIN+MAO

    1.2 MB FDD, CD-ROM drive w/ bezel, loose XGA-2 adapter? (judging by the
    stickers), Ethernet/A?

    1.44 diskette. He doesn't mention any memory sticks or hard drive so I
    am guessing they are missing. He also didn't say anything about a POST
    code, just that it seems to power on so I bet this thing is deader
    than disco.
    One of those adapters is strange to me, the BNC connector and a 15 pin
    D shell? WTF?




    Pictures of internals coming shortly…

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