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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: Pylon on Tue, 20 July 2010, 08:48:12

Title: As if this looks trustworthy (IBM M2)
Post by: Pylon on Tue, 20 July 2010, 08:48:12

http://cgi.ebay.com/IBM-PS1-Computer-w-printer-essentials-/320563101908?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Desktop_PCs&hash=item4aa30cc0d4

Good luck fitting all that into your $5 box.

Title: As if this looks trustworthy (IBM M2)
Post by: microsoft windows on Tue, 20 July 2010, 08:51:58

Maybe I'll buy it.

Title: As if this looks trustworthy (IBM M2)
Post by: didjamatic on Tue, 20 July 2010, 08:52:12

I'll be his huckleberry.

Title: As if this looks trustworthy (IBM M2)
Post by: Shawn Stanford on Tue, 20 July 2010, 11:29:04

My wife had one of these. She upgraded the snot out of it for several years, making it do things it was never intended to do. I'm not sure what happened to it in the end, but now I wish I'd kept the keyboard...

Title: As if this looks trustworthy (IBM M2)
Post by: EverythingIBM on Tue, 20 July 2010, 15:27:56

Quote from: microsoft windows;204501

Maybe I'll buy it.

I wonder how good the CRT is.

Original box... was someone keeping this as a collectible?

And aren't those the ones with the PSUs in the CRTs?

Title: As if this looks trustworthy (IBM M2)
Post by: Pylon on Tue, 20 July 2010, 15:44:11

Good point kishy...it was somewhat mocking and harsh if it was a genuine mistake.

Title: As if this looks trustworthy (IBM M2)
Post by: Mercen_505 on Tue, 20 July 2010, 21:34:33

Back in school we had a few of these same units to work on, along with a bunch of Trahs 80s, and some original macs. The things were somewhere around 8-12 Mhz and had 1 meg of RAM. I remember hitting "compile" in my IDE and going on break for 5-10 minutes while my tiny little project recompiled :(

Title: As if this looks trustworthy (IBM M2)
Post by: Oqsy on Tue, 20 July 2010, 21:39:02

ooooo that could be so much fun!

Title: As if this looks trustworthy (IBM M2)
Post by: Morning Song on Tue, 20 July 2010, 22:07:05

My first buckling spring was attached to a PS/1... different model though. (ours had a hybrid floppy drive on the right side, with a flip-down cover on the top half.

Title: As if this looks trustworthy (IBM M2)
Post by: microsoft windows on Wed, 21 July 2010, 21:36:15

My first buckling spring was on a typewriter.

Title: As if this looks trustworthy (IBM M2)
Post by: EverythingIBM on Thu, 22 July 2010, 02:14:10

My first buckling spring was the Model F I got from my schools dump. I was so excited -- even if I couldn't actually use it.

Title: As if this looks trustworthy (IBM M2)
Post by: Pylon on Thu, 22 July 2010, 08:49:18

Quote from: EverythingIBM;205181

My first buckling spring was the Model F I got from my schools dump. I was so excited -- even if I couldn't actually use it.

Pretty much the same. My first and only BS is a Model F I found on the way to school. Someone threw out an entire 5291 and I took the keyboard.