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Got myself a free 5160 together with a 5154 monitor. When I switch power on, I can hear the harddisc tick once and the powerfan spins up, nothing more. Have been testing for a while, when I disconnect the mobo connectors, the harddisc spins up normaly. Have removed all cards, but still the same...

I have a IBM L40SX laptop, this one came with a Conner CP2067 60MB harddrive in it. The harddrive wasn't working anymore so I replaced it with a 10GB IBM drive but I wanted to make it original again. Got myself a refurbished CP2067 harddrive, but this one spinned up, but after that it started...

I have one harddisc in my 5155 but I see two drives, C: and D: and both are the same. When I copy something to C: it also appears on D: and when renaming and deleting also. It runs PC-Dos 3.2 and when using FDISK I can also switch between two discs. Is this normal for these older computers??

Almost 25 years ago we bought a brand new IBM 5170 at work, it has been sitting on a shelf for many years and as I am collecting older computers these days, I asked if could take this one home, and yes, now I also have a 5170 with a 5151 monitor and original keyboard. No books or floppy's, those...

I am looking for a working IBM P70 floppydrive, FRU 38F5936. The floppydrive from an IBM 55 SX (FRU 64F0162) should also work in the P70

Hello, I recently bought myself an almost mint looking 5155 (15 euro's / is about 20 USD) It has 6 cards in it, one floppy drive and a 20Meg hard disc. When I boot up, memory starts counting till "640kb Ok" then I get an F6000 ROM error message followed bij press F1 to resume. After pressing F1...