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   GEM is truly truly outrageous (seg@oldbytes.space)'s status on Monday, 22-May-2023 22:11:43 JST GEM is truly truly outrageous

   i have acquired the IBM PS/1

   it has a first generation Sound Blaster 16 in it

   floppy drives look to be the original equipment

   no hard drive, i think i have a period appropriate replacement that may even work

   it looks like a scrapper rather violently removed all the cables except power, dislodging the expansion riser in the process

   so i have to replace all those, dunno if i still have a stash of them somewhere

   has a 12-10-92 date stamp on the case cover, chips on the board have date stamps as late as 40th week 1992, so looks like this thing was built in Oct 1992

   perhaps this was someones Christmas '92 present 🎄🎁

   CDROM has a manufacture date of Jan 1993, so it was upgraded quickly or perhaps it sold later as a post-christmas clearance deal 🙃

   this probably came with Windows 3.1, and would have been a fairly high end machine at the time

   #retrocomputing #retropc #MSDOS #DOSgaming