• Please review our updated Terms and Rules here

Aquired: IBM 5150! Found a House FULL of vintage stuff

9

90Q

Member
Joined
Apr 6, 2011
Messages
44
Location
Ontario Canada (Thunder Bay & North York)
The other day I posted about having an IBM 5160 computer for my collection.
I managed to find myselfa local 5150 and saved it from being scrapped!
There was a metal scrapper who was stripping e-waste from PCs and electronics and I asked him if he had any DVD drives for my IBM thinkpad, We got talking and he asked if i was a technie, so I said yea but I do collect more vintage PC's. He told me he doesn't keep it and they automatically are stripped for the precious metals & copper etc and thrown away.
He took me into the backyard where he had multiple C64's, a CoCo, WAYY to many disk drives I could even imagine,
Boxes of Game Systems!
He said he has no use and they are all scrap but the second i said I am interested it surely added beyond what my pocket could stretch...
so I had to leave them :(


He pulled out an IBM 5150 from his basement and said, it worked when I got it and Its going to be scrapped. I quickly said I will take it!!
I didn't even miss a beat!

I didn't manage to get a Disk Drive for my thinkpad But I did get a secondary HDD, a 1541-II Disk Drive for my Commodore, Battletoads game for the NES, This 5150 in SUCH AMAZING CONDITION FOR ITS AGE! and a goldstar monitor to go with it.



I have included some pictures for you guys to see, I shall upload them to photobucket. I apologize in advance my camera has never worked that well.
http://s77.photobucket.com/albums/j46/Atari26003/Vintage PCs/


When its all said and done, I head home with the new prize in the trunk of my car. For QUITE a few years i've had my 5151 all alone in storage because I said when i was quite younger and just started to collect that I wanted this PC, This monitor worked when I put it away ( almost 5 years ago)
I boot up the machine ... Sure took a while but it flashed the numbers " 301 " then it booted into Dos fine! as shown on the monitor i received with this PC.

my IBM 5151's issue: it shows a lot of very faint lines, almost like it is not in focus. I have taken the cover off and looked over each capacitor, nothing has blown.. no resistors look burnt from a first glance either.

I will make a small video of it once I can get home from dinner.
Hope you enjoyed the story and info, if you know anything about the monitor ( picture is on photobucket link ) please post here!

Now I am on the hunt for a proper keyboard and printer & software!! haha :D
 
First, congratulations on your haul and I don't even hate your guts LOL

Second, it's difficult to tell from the picture, but the 5151 LOOKS like it's suffering from a horizontal deflection problem and is folding over. I don't recall the schematic for it, but, if I remember correctly, they used a pair of horizontal driver transistors in that right before the HOT stage.
 
90Q said:
its a p3 with a partitioned drive and maxed ram :D
Click to expand...

That's less informative than you'd think--a "maxed" PC system could have anywhere from 512MB to 8GB of RAM, depending on the chiopset. And later chips don't always mean more RAM, oddly. So what's the chipset in yours?
 
Druid6900 said:
First, congratulations on your haul and I don't even hate your guts LOL

Second, it's difficult to tell from the picture, but the 5151 LOOKS like it's suffering from a horizontal deflection problem and is folding over. I don't recall the schematic for it, but, if I remember correctly, they used a pair of horizontal driver transistors in that right before the HOT stage.
Click to expand...

Thanks for your helpful Post Druid. I will be looking online a fair bit for anything on the schematics that makes sense, the image does go through but its not showing right on the screen, when i took it apart nothing looked wrong though :(. oh well if you find those schematics before me give me a shout!
 
90Q said:
xD maxed ram recognized in DOS 6 sorry for confusion!~
Though instead of picking on the good parts of my post why pick up on the little details like that....
Click to expand...

Well, if you're going to say something, shouldn't people be able to understand what you mean?

Running an extender in DOS can address one heckuva lot of memory. Heck, Windows 95 is basically a program implemented on a DOS DPMI server. You can't run Windows 9x without DOS. ;)
 
Chuck(G) said:
Well, if you're going to say something, shouldn't people be able to understand what you mean?

Running an extender in DOS can address one heckuva lot of memory. Heck, Windows 95 is basically a program implemented on a DOS DPMI server. You can't run Windows 9x without DOS. ;)
Click to expand...

This is very true and quite a good point, I Believe though dos 6.2 as i've seen only registers and utilizes 64MB of memory, which it has a 256MB stick in it.
I could maybe locate an extender but all applications fly as it stands lol
 
I'll check and see if I have a compatible and good-shape keyboard. I know I have two XT class boards here for a rainy day and only need one. Searching...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top