Today’s lucky find is a 1983 IBM PC XT 5160, complete with matching display, keyboard, documentation, and system disks!
26.01.2025 19:03 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0@retrorandrs.bsky.social
ISTJ. Geek. Electronics engineer (hardware / firmware / software for embedded systems); collector and restorer of vintage computer systems (he / his).
Today’s lucky find is a 1983 IBM PC XT 5160, complete with matching display, keyboard, documentation, and system disks!
26.01.2025 19:03 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Someone brought this 1960s Kenwood A701A stand mixer into the repair café that I volunteer at over the weekend - it needs a new mains cable, a motor driver rebuild, and new motor brushes. I couldn’t resist offering to take it home and fix it for them 😂 It would have went to the tip otherwise.
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