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Thanks @chookin1 - a lot of work went into that studio. Its now my 3rd. Fingers crossed that this one survives! No more flooding.

@bot_pepper.4029 - both boxes were holes in my collection. The Doom trilogy was a grail find for me. I had the other Duke 3d but not this version. Just very very lucky. Have not seen anything this good since.

Thanks @macmuseum - could not have dreamed this up!

@aussie_retro_dude9253 - yeah great price. They have to make a bit of money out of it and I'm happy to do that all day long! 🙂

@altscott I didn't realise this at the time either! Good pick up. I googled the model number and its definitely IDE. I found a scanned brochure for it. Will replace the batteries after Christmas and see what I can do about getting it running again. I can't find any MFM hard drives in Australia either. At least not reliable ones.

@altscott - yes been down that road with my Apple Europlus and it blew. I think I'm starting to get a backlog of caps to replace and hard drives to find !

@BollingHolt - yeah I can't believe someone would take the monitor and leave the actual computer! I hope whoever got it, puts it up on marketplace or sees this video and lets me know. I'd like to reunite it. Now to find a monitor that will work with it.... and resolve those switches.

@altscott - yes. Good advice! Will do.

@@RetroRarez Great work btw - It's always good to see a new retro-channel!

@@altscott thanks. Its a lot of work with editing etc.. but given I find stuff every week and preserve what I can.... its nice to document what I'm doing... and if people like it, then its a bonus!

Hey @canthearu4876 - yes it was the monitor from that Commodore video I did a few weeks ago. I didn't actually notice the switches until after I turned it on. I have another NEC multisync, but later model with a different set of pins. Hope to find the original Multisync or some other generic monitor that will work. Still looking around for the manual for that card. Had a similar issue with the Amstrad laptop. Argh displays !!!!

If it is a true multi-sync monitor, you should be able to find a pinout for both the monitor and your standard ttl (DB-9) and vga (DB-15) and create converter cables for both of them to work on that multi-sync monitor. Otherwise you can always drop a VGA ISA card into the NEC computer for testing. Good luck, and nice system. Rare to see such systems turn up in near completely stock state.

Great suggestion@@canthearu4876. Will absolutely give that a go. Future video. ;-)

@aldwinpanny10 - its prior to all those. It runs MSDOS.

Ahh yes @dipankarbose5933 you never forget it !!

Thanks @BollingHolt - I was amazed that things like this are still out there. He certainly took good care of it.

@philpots48 - That monitor was gold !!! I've never had that model, so was incredibly happy to add it to the collection. Having a clean 64C is also good. The brown drive cover was pretty funny. It wasn't long ago that I found that other XT with the plastic cover on it, so it reminded me of that.

Hey @josephphillips9243 - Oh yeah! I should actually start posting the scams I've avoided. So many of those around right now. I've nearly been taken for a ride, but then when you look at their profile, you quickly learn they are not who they say they are! The other thing is dealing with people who say "oh yeah it works", then you test it and it doesn't. So quite often I walk away. Sometimes I give them a price for it not working, which factors in my time and parts to fix it. But I try not to do that, as its not worth my time and hassle.

Yeah @alisharifian535 love this game.

@roasthunter oh wow. Wonder if it had anything on it? Got to love those mysterious machines that nobody knows about, that have been sitting there for decades. Just had one of my 286's repaired yesterday. So going to give it a test - probably with Alleycat if I can find it!

@ I did try rebooting it after taking it down from the rack it was sitting on and it came up with an error so I suspect the battery was long dead. My first pc was a 386dx40 which I bought in about 1991 and I literally threw the motherboard and memory in the bin about 15 years ago when I moved house, I wish I hadn’t now as it has some good memories but at the time I just needed to clear the house out and didn’t care much for this old stuff. I would dread moving now, I have so much stuff but I’m often conflicted on keeping stuff as it often sits unused collecting dust and think I might be better off selling it.

@JoCrt I literally have no idea about it. Was searching for one, but maybe I'm blind and cant see it. Will need to investigate as the last thing I want is for some battery to leak. 😵

Hey @andrewsuvorow6818 - thanks for letting me know. I wasn't aware of that! Very cool. Will try to find that driver. 👍

@joehorecny7835 the TI-99/4A was a cool little computer with the black cartridge slot on the right hand side. I bet you love the graphics upgrade when you got the IBM XT !!! Should definitely get it out of the basement and dust it off. Sounds like you need a good game of alleycat !

@@RetroRarez My mom bought me one for the holidays, I had great years with it. Beige version. Cassette recorder, books, games, I learned some BASIC programming! It was great! 1983.

@@jackilynpyzocha662 - every kid knew something about BASIC growing up. Even if it was 10 Print "Hello" 😁

Hey @LuKasFunHouse great to hear from you !! Third owner.... 🙂 good to know the history. Yep, we are just mere custodians of this stuff. She's had a good clean and is being well looked after. Currently sits next to the Commodore XT I found just before. I'm in the process of putting together some games on floppy disk and will test her out on some other things. Seems to crash now on Digger, not sure if its a himemory thing or something else. Sierra games still play fine. Eventually I'll open up that power supply and give it a good clean out and see if any caps are bulging. Other than that - very happy! Glad you love the video!

@ i only played conquest of camelot so cannot help you there! Though if i find any other cool odd things around, ill let you know!

Hey @paulwarner5395 - did you have the black Australian version or the white Japanese version? The tape (SR-1000) had a cool little sega logo on it. Better than the C64 tape! dBase would have been slow as.... maybe because of the different ram on that thing too.

Hey @krad2520 I haven't heard of a TAVA before. Yes! If you have a faster(ish) PC everything will go super fast running msdos. I did a TH-cam short on Captain Comic running on one of my IBM PC's. Very cool game - filled many a weekend. Also remember Bushido... not shark though!

1986 and a CoCo2 !!! Big investment for back then for a 5th birthday. Good parents!

This one seems to be pretty reliable (touch wood). I might open it up at some point and just check that theres no bulging capacitors.

Hey @mrfndz - Yeah the Sinclair is a cool little compact unit. The Atari cassettes remind me of Commodore with their cool graphics. Glad you like the Aussie landscape! Had to feature the cows. 🐄I wondered if people outside Australia would appreciate it or not. In any case, its just part of me finding this stuff. I film when I can, but most people don't like me filming when I pick up something as they value their privacy. I hope to do more shots of the actual deal or maybe feature some footage with their face blurred or something like that. Where abouts are you?

Hey @sgottoboni - Love the Plus 4. Which one did you use more? Guessing the 64 ?

Thanks @TheBasementChannel - yeah this was such a cool find. I'm adding it to the studio in the background. I'm just filming what I'm doing and showing what I find. Makes me happy to know that other people like it and are passionate about this stuff too! 🙂

Yeah the power switches are one of my favorite things on these XT's. Nothing also beats the little button points on the side to slide the case up too! I'm going to look after this little baby. Hope to get the keyboard alt key fixed. Shame it didn't have CGA or EGA or something, but it is what it is!

@32KOFDATA - hahahaha yeah I was surprised, given the Commodore PC I found the other day and then the Epson before that.... both of which I need hard drives for. Dont want to jinx it now! 😁 I did see that Digger crashed on me a few times, so I'm not sure whats going on with that. Will need to have a peak through it.

@josephphillips9243 - you wont believe this, but I just found one, in amongst a huge collection of IBM's. This collection is soo big, I need to schedule some time to unpack it and go through it. I'll end up making a video on it, probably around Christmas, as it will be up there, in terms of big finds. But I do agree, nothing beats finding an IBM XT, especially a mint 5150.

@@RetroRarez Looking forward to that video 👍

@@josephphillips9243 yeah its going to be days of videos and editing. Probably will be the biggest video I'll ever make. I'd like to do it justice so it might be cut into into parts. Maybe an overview video first, then unboxing for some software (theres a few of those boxes), then an overview of the hardware, then opening it all up. I actually can't believe that this happened, because everything was in the way to stop it. Absolute fluke that it worked out. Will enjoy filming it though!

@rastkopetrovic7896 - hahaha yeah I totally get it. Sometimes its a drought and then bang. I usually find one cool thing every week. Sometimes it might be that modem video I did... other times its an XT, other times it might be software. Its whatever it is.... meant to be. One observation is that people are selling stuff at the moment, trying to raise cash, pay the bills etc... so its a buyers market - at lease here in Australia.

@ here in WA is mostly drought…it only drizzles

@@rastkopetrovic7896 Oh really? Hard to find stuff over there?

@Octamed - I was very concerned that when I picked it up, it would BLOW 🔥or at least smoke. But the seller had it running for hours, so it might be fine (for now). However, we all know it WILL blow up - just a matter of when.

I'm a magnet for this stuff... and I hope to put it all on display. I've got an insane collection and really want to showcase it and have people USE it. Sounds weird but I'm not a hoarder, I just feel like these things should be preserved and I'd like to eventually have a place where people can enjoy it as much as I do. The Amstrad 6128 was a cool looking machine with that black disk drive on the right hand side. Those disks were unique too. Funny looking back how all these things had different formats. Not like now where most stuff talks to each other. Glad you enjoyed the video @aussie_retro_dude9253 !!!

Yes it is. I should have been cleared about that. It's designed to protect me !

@BollingHolt I've decided to start a little modem collection on the side. A 300 baud modem with a CoCo2 would have been very cool back then. State of the art! The LED's are really nice and I love the colour and box too. Next to a US Robotics Courier, this would be my favorite modem.

@@RetroRarez I always am happy to hear about more modems and more modem content! 😎 I can see why those would be your favorites. Excellent choices!

@ChrisGuiver - Sendata is a name I haven't heard in a looong time. I used to laugh at the Telecom and then Austel stickers and compliance... like the network ever burned down or crashed because someone was using a 1200 baud modem. 🙂 I'd love to find sold old paperwork on that.

So amazing that all these years later, this modem pops up along with the person who made it 39 years ago! What was the production line like?

@@RetroRarez Well sufficed to say, I was gone 3 months later 😏. Lines are as boring as batshyt, where the biggest issue is which radio station gets listened to. After doubling the daily throughput and halving the number of bungs (i.e. units sent back for re work) and surrounded by a pack of wolves telling me to slow down, I decided it wasn't the place for me.

Hey @pcgoblin2 - Yeah its funny how we want to go back. I remember my dad telling me in the 80's not to throw out all those floppy disks and computers. Now all I want is a good 8088 XT !!

@@RetroRarez If you want a whole _wall_ of similarly retro machines, let me know!

@@prophetzarquon who could say no to that? But I'm in Australia. 😢

I used a couple of NeXT systems in the 90's. They were very cool. You've got to get that Lisa up and running... such a great machine! Please don't let them go to landfill. I'll happily save them. 🥰

So does my Compaq Portable (slightly hacked with a 286 CPU card…).

@@RetroRarez Yes! The Lisa was one of my favorites; a great machine. For better or for worse, the one I have, was set up to run MacOS 1. (Just be sure to disable an app's Sound before it tries to specify a tone's frequency; unsupported by the piezo buzzer!) I'd like to flip it open & look for any obvious blown capacitors, etc, but I've got no safe space to leave projects laid out right now. I actually have a plan to make the Kaypro II battery powered... _sort of!_ There's a lot of unused space, inside the case. Rather than running the Kaypro itself, I've considered powering just the Kaypro's display off an inverter, while emulating the "Kaypro" CP/M environment using a Raspberry Pi. One advantage of this, would be that the display can show (green-on-black) _video_ rather than just text, if I want to make someone say "How?"! I'd even sacrifice a spare power cord, to leave a frayed end so that it looks _really_ impossible. If you are interested in taking the whole collection off my hands, I don't really need any significant amount of money for it all. My main concern is that they be seen (& ideally, used), so that more people can learn what old "personal" computers used to be like! The main barrier as I see it, would be safely shipping them. Know any retro computing enthusiasts in Colorado?

@@prophetzarquon Hit me up on socials such as x.com/retrorarez or Instagram - might be able to work something out.