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Pre-release: The IBM PC XT (5160)
🕑 Added 2024-05-18 05:01:53 +0000 UTC26 hours of editing... Countless hours shooting... It's finally done! The most-recent eWaste haul has graced my bench with a machine I've been hunting for years: The IBM 5160. These machines were super important for me, as I found them most-fascinating as a kid. Could possibly be the whole reason I went into the tech industry (and boy am I grateful for that). We did also have a 5150, but I much preferred the XT because I was obsessed with hard drives.
It took ordering two hard drive controllers, a keyboard adapter and some EEPROMs to get this together. That's all I'll say because, spoilers.
Hope you like it: https://youtu.be/B_jvQPLj-WE
Comments
Tony U Atkins
More, please!!!!!
MikeTech
Hopefully by then I'll have a robot doing this stuff for me.
JerseyBoy3100
I had to chuckle when you bemoaned your adult sized fingers. While I don't have too many retro systems, I can assure you that the modern systems aren't any better. Being quite a bit older than you, all I can say is wait until you have to factor in arthritis into your work!
