Re: Identify old PC
At 12:37 AM 10/19/2018, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: >In a way, it resembles a Commodore PET but for the shape of the system >unit, which looks like a CBM 4040 drive box. Did such a box ever have >the option for a 5.25" hard disk drive? Is this a stumper? CBM made a 8060 and 9090, also IEEE-488, 5 and 7 meg, single drive in a box. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_D9060 They would've had to have packed the SASI / 488 interface into the same box. The floppy board was already big. http://www.nightfallcrew.com/30/10/2014/commodore-dual-drive-floppy-disk-model-4040-repair/ I checked my 2040. Mine seems to be missing the upper sticker. The box in the Reddit post doesn't quite look like the CBM box. The CBM box has a large white metal area where the sticker goes. The monitor in the post has the opposite color scheme of CBM. CBM was black on the bezel and white on the metal. This was spotted in Joliet, Illinois. - John
Re: Identify old PC
If anything. You can put it in the museum listing of let's stump the experts. Original message From: John Foust via cctalk Date: 10/18/18 9:07 PM (GMT-06:00) To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Identify old PC Pardon the post of content from elsewhere, but this one had me puzzled, perhaps because I'd been puzzled earlier the same day by a IMSAI advert (http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/computers-and-software-ads-1980s/19) that showed something other than an IMSAI 8080. Does anyone recognize this old computer (from Reddit)? https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/9pc7sx/help_identifying_this_old_pc/ - John
Re: Identify old PC
Its possibly something like but not exactly a Raytheon, Sweda, Lanier etc or similar business machine just before the IBM PC I have never seen this one. Bill On Fri, Oct 19, 2018, 1:53 AM jim stephens via cctalk wrote: > > > On 10/18/2018 10:37 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > > On 10/18/18 9:56 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: > > > >> The sides are not square like any Imsai I saw, and there is a monitor on > >> top, which is also in a slope case. I don't recognize it, but as I said > >> the Altos look like one of the 58x (I think) looks similar. > > Don't think so---the trapezoidal monitor case is wrong for an ACS586, as > > well as the case being too tall--the 586 FH drive faceplates came right > > up to the top of the system cover. > I was saying more reminded of Altos. Maybe early versions, not sure. I > agree it doesn't match it at all. > > All the Altos boxes I have are 8" floppy boxes w/o that nonsense, so > haven't got a lot of experience with those. > > And you're right the Commodore thing is going on there too. > thanks > Jim > > In a way, it resembles a Commodore PET but for the shape of the system > > unit, which looks like a CBM 4040 drive box. Did such a box ever have > > the option for a 5.25" hard disk drive? > > > > --Chuck > > > > > >
Re: Identify old PC
On 10/18/2018 10:37 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 10/18/18 9:56 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: The sides are not square like any Imsai I saw, and there is a monitor on top, which is also in a slope case. I don't recognize it, but as I said the Altos look like one of the 58x (I think) looks similar. Don't think so---the trapezoidal monitor case is wrong for an ACS586, as well as the case being too tall--the 586 FH drive faceplates came right up to the top of the system cover. I was saying more reminded of Altos. Maybe early versions, not sure. I agree it doesn't match it at all. All the Altos boxes I have are 8" floppy boxes w/o that nonsense, so haven't got a lot of experience with those. And you're right the Commodore thing is going on there too. thanks Jim In a way, it resembles a Commodore PET but for the shape of the system unit, which looks like a CBM 4040 drive box. Did such a box ever have the option for a 5.25" hard disk drive? --Chuck
Re: Identify old PC
On 10/18/18 9:56 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: > The sides are not square like any Imsai I saw, and there is a monitor on > top, which is also in a slope case. I don't recognize it, but as I said > the Altos look like one of the 58x (I think) looks similar. Don't think so---the trapezoidal monitor case is wrong for an ACS586, as well as the case being too tall--the 586 FH drive faceplates came right up to the top of the system cover. In a way, it resembles a Commodore PET but for the shape of the system unit, which looks like a CBM 4040 drive box. Did such a box ever have the option for a 5.25" hard disk drive? --Chuck
Re: Identify old PC
Looks like an IMSAI PCS? Here's a good picture of one: https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/71e4dy/imsai_pcs_8030_s100_computer_with_ikb1_war_games/ Some more info here: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=342 On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 10:11 PM John Foust via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > Pardon the post of content from elsewhere, but this one had me puzzled, > perhaps because I'd been puzzled earlier the same day by a IMSAI advert > (http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/computers-and-software-ads-1980s/19) > that showed something other than an IMSAI 8080. > > Does anyone recognize this old computer (from Reddit)? > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/9pc7sx/help_identifying_this_old_pc/ > > - John > > -- *Derek Newland* | (828) 234-4731 | derek.newl...@gmail.com
