compaqportableplus
Veteran Member
Found myself another early IBM PC! This one’s even older than the last one, though it needs a LOT more work. Lots of dirt and rust to tend to.
Here’s some pics of it in the condition I received it. I will be stripped and carefully cleaning and testing each part one by one.
It has a stamp of November 19th, 1981 on the inside of the front, though I see 1982 date codes on some of the motherboard chips, so maybe the board was replaced, or maybe that date is just when the case itself was made, but either way it is still a 16KB-64KB board, so I don’t really care. Really happy to see the ‘78 copyrighted 8088 still present too.
And it does have the bronze power supply with non-recessed nuts. Hard to tell with all that dirt on it, but it’s definitely has that brownish shine to it. Very cool.
And it does still have one of the original single-sided drives present too, which is really neat I think.
It has three original cards with the black back plates, an MDA card, floppy controller and 64KB memory expansion. It also has a later 256KB IBM memory expansion with the silver back plate.
Super excited to restore this PC. I will add more details and pics as I make progress.
Here’s some pics of it in the condition I received it. I will be stripped and carefully cleaning and testing each part one by one.
It has a stamp of November 19th, 1981 on the inside of the front, though I see 1982 date codes on some of the motherboard chips, so maybe the board was replaced, or maybe that date is just when the case itself was made, but either way it is still a 16KB-64KB board, so I don’t really care. Really happy to see the ‘78 copyrighted 8088 still present too.
And it does have the bronze power supply with non-recessed nuts. Hard to tell with all that dirt on it, but it’s definitely has that brownish shine to it. Very cool.
And it does still have one of the original single-sided drives present too, which is really neat I think.
It has three original cards with the black back plates, an MDA card, floppy controller and 64KB memory expansion. It also has a later 256KB IBM memory expansion with the silver back plate.
Super excited to restore this PC. I will add more details and pics as I make progress.