Re: Hardware identification


Subject: Re: Hardware identification
From: Tom (thogland@alaskatech.org)
Date: Tue Jan 29 2002 - 16:36:03 AKST


On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Justin Dieters wrote:
> Time to play "Guess That Hardware"!
>
> Anyway, I was at Salvation Army today, and I came across an interesting
> little device, and I've not seen it or heard of anything like it, and
> I'm wondering what it is.
>
> It's a black box about the size of a large laptop computer, or a small
> cable box. It has the IBM Aptiva logo on the front along with a single
> button which I presume is the power button. On top, you push down and a
> part of the top flips up to reveal CD-ROM and floppy drives. On the
> back there is a ps2 mouse and keyboard port, and a hard-wired cable
> coming out that looks like the end of a printer cable that plugs into
> the printer, only wider.. (SCSI?) There are no other connectors of any
> kind (vga, parallel, serial, usb... nothing) I also do not recall
> seeing any openings for a fan intake or anything like that. According
> to a sticker on the bottom, it was made in or around 1997.
>
> Anyone know what in the world this is???

Yep - I've got one sitting in my living room. It's part of an IBM Aptiva
PC. There's usually the little pop-top part with floppy and CD, that
connects to the main tower via the big SCSI-type connector. The serial,
parallel, VGA etc. are all on the main tower.

Want a big pile of similar parts? Just come by and pick them up <g>...



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