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Title: cheap model f pc/xt in france
Post by: poxeclipse on Sun, 02 September 2012, 08:35:31

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemNext&item=170901503093&pt=FR_GH_Informatique_Ordinateurs_Ordinateurs_de_Collection&autorefresh=true

Title: Re: cheap model f pc/xt in france
Post by: cactux on Sun, 02 September 2012, 08:42:59

This guy is Québécois  not French. The keyboard is just another model F, and the cable has been modified.

Title: Re: cheap model f pc/xt in france
Post by: poxeclipse on Sun, 02 September 2012, 09:06:25

Quote from: cactux on Sun, 02 September 2012, 08:42:59

This guy is Québécois  not French. The keyboard is just another model F, and the cable has been modified.

He might be, I don't know him, but the ad says France as item location.

Title: Re: cheap model f pc/xt in france
Post by: AKIMbO on Sun, 02 September 2012, 11:05:02

That's the most ghetto cable adaption I've ever seen.  Nothing a teensy, mini usb to usb cable, and soarer's converter code can't fix (maybe $20 in parts).

Title: Re: cheap model f pc/xt in france
Post by: poxeclipse on Sun, 02 September 2012, 15:40:44

Yes, strange and dangerous. The controller might have been burned. The part they added looks like AT.

Title: Re: cheap model f pc/xt in france
Post by: dorkvader on Sun, 02 September 2012, 21:46:29

Quote from: AKIMbO on Sun, 02 September 2012, 11:05:02

That's the most ghetto cable adaption I've ever seen.  Nothing a teensy, mini usb to usb cable, and soarer's converter code can't fix (maybe $20 in parts).

The hard part (for me) is finding a good looking female DIN connector to use. I'm not as hot on the internal teensy :)