PC Archeology: A left for Dead IBM PC 5150 with a treasure hiding inside 🕷

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  @adriansdigitalbasement · 2 years ago · pinned

  I forgot to mention in the video that there was really nothing interesting on either of the floppies I archived. Also, if you are curious, that EPROM I used in place of the ROM was a WSI 57C49C -- it's a drop in replacement but the issue with it is you can only program it on "fancy" programmers the Data IO 2900... so it's not really useful to most people since those types of programmers are impossible to find.

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• AL

  @alanharkleroad4376 · 2 years ago

  The spider is like, Happy Halloween, Adrian. But that 386 accelerator card in a 5150 is just insane.

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• CT

  @ct_carpenter · 2 years ago

  Be kind to the spider, she probably spun that expansion card for you during the time that she was guarding that 5150 for you.

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• CR

  @crashoverride328 · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KepvxT6Yc7E&amp;t=30">0:30</a> Ahh, Rogue - a classic game. I remember it well.

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• BL

  @bluebary · 9 months ago

  Oh hell no <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KepvxT6Yc7E&amp;t=681">11:21</a> 😂

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• MN

  @mnotgninnep · 2 years ago (edited)

  I restored my one of these keyboards. The foam degrades inside and causes all sorts of problems, both with stuck keys and non-registering keys. I had to take it apart, clean everything and replaced the foam with a sheet of neoprene. It now works flawlessly. You will need a series of clamps top and bottom and a long one at the sides to help you get the layers clipped back together. Lastly, don’t pull off the space bar. It is clipped to a metal bar underneath and you will both break the plastic clips and be unable to reattach it without disassembling the keyboard again. When you do reassemble it, feed some dental floss through the post hole around the metal bar to pull and hold it up while you click the space bar back in. Once you are sure the space bar is clicked in and seated right, you can then pull it out.

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• ST

  @SteepSix · 1 year ago

  <b>EEEK a giant spider just came out!</b> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KepvxT6Yc7E&amp;t=691">11:31</a> - Of course this Aussie expected to see a huge huntsman type monster sprinting across the bench. If you look real close, squint, and advance frame-by-frame on your big screen, you can <i>just</i> make out Itsy Bitsy plummeting from the bottom of the drive... clinging to a particle of dust. 😯🤔🤨🥱

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• LO

  @Loki- · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KepvxT6Yc7E&amp;t=530">8:50</a> It&apos;s flappin&apos; in the breeze!

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• MR

  @mrnmrn1 · 2 years ago

  Tip for the bad sector disk: I had very good results with completely unreadable C64 disks (like 80+ % of the sectors were unreadable when archiving them on PC with a 1541 connected to the parallel port). Cut open the disk envelope, place the disk on a paper towel, and clean it with an other paper towel moistened with Windex. Cut open a good condition sacrificial disk and insert the cleaned disk into its envelope. Completely unreadable C64 disks came up 100% readable with this method. That collection of disks was stored on an attic for 15-20 years, and they didn&apos;t like it.

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• NE

  @networkg · 2 years ago

  The spider jump scare alone deserves a thumbs up ! &nbsp;Another great video from the basement.

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• NU

  @NutDriverLefty · 2 years ago

  I was a co-op student at IBM starting a few months after the 5150 was announced. &nbsp;I spent many hours plugging in 16KB RAM chips on the &quot;Type A&quot; motherboards, followed by 64KB RAM chips when the &quot;Type B&quot; motherboards came out. &nbsp;Then the XT, the &quot;XT hard drive nightmare&quot;, the AT, IBM Cluster Program, IBM PC LAN Program, and Netware on PC for K-12 education accounts. &nbsp;I finished my co-op assignment a few months before the PS/2 was announced.

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• LU

  @Lukeno52 · 2 years ago

  That accelerator card is really amazing, and it is so good to see that the machine holding it wasn&apos;t confined to a grave. I can only imagine how much of a lease of life it must&apos;ve given it back in the day!

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