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  • August 13, 2011 at 6:38 pm #2210906

    IBM 5150 HELP!!!?

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    by kdgl · about 11 years, 3 months ago

    IBM 5150 HELP!!!
    Hi today i bought a ibm 5150 for $20. However its missing 1 of the floppy drives and the hard drive. It has a vga monitor and a ibm keyboard. I wanted to know what i should do get get it up and running cheaply. I also want to know how much its worth. Please Respond Thanks!!!

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    • August 13, 2011 at 6:38 pm #2843785

      Clarifications

      by kdgl · about 11 years, 3 months ago

      In reply to IBM 5150 HELP!!!?

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    • August 13, 2011 at 9:39 pm #2843781

      From memory

      by oh smeg · about 11 years, 3 months ago

      In reply to IBM 5150 HELP!!!?

      These things didn’t have a HDD they just had 1 or 2 Floppies and that was it.

      if you needed to save any Data you wrote that to one of the Floppies or a Tape Drive that was a standard Cassette.

      As for the value of them I have no idea I didn’t work on them new I didn’t have anything to do with them new except for 1 instance when I fixed a Undocumented Feature and disgruntled user but you could try looking here at what is being sold on E Bay for some idea of what these are fetching now.

      http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=ibm+5150

      Col

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