VintageVic
Experienced Member
Today I stumbled upon a lot of old ibm retro stuff.
It was saved in a cold storage, only good thing was that there was
roof on top of it, but it was exposed to dampness and temperatures of every season.
Yet, I could not pass on the chance to make offer on the items. Deal was agreed at 150 euro.
No shipping, because I was already there with my car.
Deal included at least
Japaniese IBM 5551 with monitor, keyboard and external 3.5" floppy drive (I assume floppy is for this unit).
IBM 5154 EGA monitor
Some 200+ floppies (maybe more)
expansion cards, including ibm 5050 motherboard, ram expansions, i/o cards, display adapters.
Well, I wanted to know if that EGA monitor is working. My IBM 5150 with green monitor
could use some updated colors! The lot has OTIVGA vga/ega adapter and I quickly found proper dip
switch settings for EGA. Installed the card to the 5150.
But the monitor. I knew it was a risk to hook it to power cord, but one has to try, right ?
Immediately there were some loud cracking sounds and white smoke pouring out of the monitor.
Obviously, I pulled the power cord and run the monitor out of my house. Smell probably lingers for a while... doh.
So to the topic. My IBM 5160 power made the same smoke come out of it and it happened to be repairable.
That was the AC filter cap that smoked in the 5160.
Could I be so lucky, that the monitor has similar issue - filter cap needs to be replaced ?
Or, is the monitor goner for sure now?
Any advice how to _safely_ open the EGA monitor? I do not want to damage anything inside
while opening the case, just in case if the monitor could be saved.
It was saved in a cold storage, only good thing was that there was
roof on top of it, but it was exposed to dampness and temperatures of every season.
Yet, I could not pass on the chance to make offer on the items. Deal was agreed at 150 euro.
No shipping, because I was already there with my car.
Deal included at least
Japaniese IBM 5551 with monitor, keyboard and external 3.5" floppy drive (I assume floppy is for this unit).
IBM 5154 EGA monitor
Some 200+ floppies (maybe more)
expansion cards, including ibm 5050 motherboard, ram expansions, i/o cards, display adapters.
Well, I wanted to know if that EGA monitor is working. My IBM 5150 with green monitor
could use some updated colors! The lot has OTIVGA vga/ega adapter and I quickly found proper dip
switch settings for EGA. Installed the card to the 5150.
But the monitor. I knew it was a risk to hook it to power cord, but one has to try, right ?
Immediately there were some loud cracking sounds and white smoke pouring out of the monitor.
Obviously, I pulled the power cord and run the monitor out of my house. Smell probably lingers for a while... doh.
So to the topic. My IBM 5160 power made the same smoke come out of it and it happened to be repairable.
That was the AC filter cap that smoked in the 5160.
Could I be so lucky, that the monitor has similar issue - filter cap needs to be replaced ?
Or, is the monitor goner for sure now?
Any advice how to _safely_ open the EGA monitor? I do not want to damage anything inside
while opening the case, just in case if the monitor could be saved.