Hi
Well, it was $35 and someone had used a hack saw (or similar) to make a rough hole and install a 360K half height floppy in place of the original bottom one but I guess I could not pass it up for some odd reason.
But what I found inside was a bit more interesting: Someone had made a small rack to fit 2 ISA 8 bit cards and managed to install a memory card, HD controller card, another fan and a MFM HD...so the machine now has 640k ram.
Obviously not Hyperion installed (unless thats the way they worked) and kinda smart in the way the person used the minimal space in there to fit all of that...
There is a small card that soldered to the expansion connector port of the hyperion (from the inside) I cant remember the name of the company now but it was not Hyperion...there is a ribbon cable that goes to over the monitor and the 2 isa slot are there...
The original (320k IIRC) drives are missing, it gives a memory error on post (already fixed now bad ram chip...), CRT could be a bit more bright but has no burn (cranked up brightness preset it was at minimum - nice now) , but I am still glad I found one of these...they look a bit more common around here since they were built in Canada....seem quite rare everywhere else...
Guy said he would give me money back if I could not fix it and decided to bring it back...within a week...
If anybody has parts -front panel and original drive(s)?- I might be interested to bring this thing back to original shape or close to...If not, well I will probably fix the rough hole by making a nice platic plate to fix that terrrible hack job that defaces the poor thing...the hole that was made there is so rough its a shame....
Might put up pics on my web site of this hacked thing (inside and out) before I redo everything and make it nice...if anybody sounds interested...
Claude
Canuk Computer Collector
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