Oh wow. Those must be classics now! What do you do with all your computers?
My first was an IBM XT motherboard with a disk controller, 384KB expansion card, and CGA graphics card, all mounted in a home-built sheet-metal chassis. I later made a wooden case for it.
I'm afraid the ones in the garage are just taking up space. Three of them in the bedroom are functioning as furniture, more or less (two bedstands and one that's holding my regular desktop monitor at the right height), and two of them (desktop and laptop) are the ones I actually use. Some day I'd like to get all the hard drive contents consolidated onto storage media so I can recycle all the old machines.
We are in a similar situation and we just bought a 1 TB drive to try and put everything in one place. Let's see how long it takes for us to get around to it... heh
Sadly, no. I made it of veneered chipboard, stained a dark colour. Over time, the additional upgrades I installed required me to chip away some of the interior partitions, and eventually I bought a tower. What was nice about it was that it worked well as a sort of table.
I had a 10MB drive as part of an IBM XT Compatible, too.. my first "owned" computer, though I'd used Apple IIs from a previous school and friends for many years before that.. (side note: Apple Profile 5MB Hard drives are HUGE)..
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Date: Sunday, 21 March 2010 08:59 (UTC)My first was an IBM XT motherboard with a disk controller, 384KB expansion card, and CGA graphics card, all mounted in a home-built sheet-metal chassis. I later made a wooden case for it.
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Date: Sunday, 21 March 2010 09:08 (UTC)I'm afraid the ones in the garage are just taking up space. Three of them in the bedroom are functioning as furniture, more or less (two bedstands and one that's holding my regular desktop monitor at the right height), and two of them (desktop and laptop) are the ones I actually use. Some day I'd like to get all the hard drive contents consolidated onto storage media so I can recycle all the old machines.
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Date: Sunday, 21 March 2010 16:40 (UTC)Fond memories.