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Fixing this PS/2 was so much work!! #doscember
Fixing this PS/2 was so much work!! #doscember
#Fixing #PS2 #work #doscember
“Tony359”
The final chapter on my PS/2 model 30 repair and restoration! Thanks PCBWay for sponsoring this video: …
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Excellent video, thanks!
gotta be honest, i'm kind of surprised no ones come up with an adapter card to allow regular IDE drives in the older MCA systems. its not only been decades, but just about all the other older systems have some sort of interface cards or adapters to allow newer storage systems.
i wouldn't think the translation would be that hard with some of the newer chips. maybe a couple of rpi2040s to act as buffers and translators. shouldn't need a full blown fpga for this sort of thing, the original controllers are largely just regular ICs for both types, after all.
Great work Tony!
I thought I have seen someone who developed a board that could plug in to where the hard drive plugs in but you can use a compact flash card to load your hard drive data.
Hey Tony! What a great video and what a great coincidence… Just this morning I saved a BULL Micral 35F from the scrapyards… The machine has some scratches and a lot of dust, but looks complete and not broken at all… Sadly could not save the original keyboard and crt… Maybe I should do a video of it… I guess that would make for a great doscember video. 😊
My IBM Model 57 runs fine.
Nice to know that ps/2 is Y2K compatible
That power switch! I remember such a power switch acting like a child lock because it was too difficult for me to flip it on my dad's 286. Otherwise, an amazing restoration of this old machine! Congrats on a fantastic job!
I had to revive my IBM 486 too about 2 years ago, it was completely dead by itself, turned out the old capacitors in the power supply had leaked all over the PCB and killing it, also the mobo was dead for same reasons and contact issues. it took me some time but I re-cap everything and got it back to life again. it is very important to have in mind that old capacitors are starting to cause way more trouble today than most people understand. take care of your vintage stuff and happy Doscember, I just revived my old IBM Laptop that had a melting rubber coating all over the whole computer, what a job that was to get off
Hi Tony, thanks for this amazing restoration. well appreciated your efforts for us to enjoy. Was a bit afraid for the chip swap instead of the pcb swap, but happy for you all work fine.
does it have an ESDI imterface to connect HDD? I have some of theses drives, for which I have no use. If you're interested, let me know
Great video Tony and again got many flashbacks of my old job. Merry Christmas my friend and keep up the good work.
Hi Tony. What a mammoth project, Geordi La Forge would be proud😉👍
I did a 20MB IDE laptop HDD inside a IBM 5MB HDD, using a PIC, so an Arduino would do it easy.
Happy Christmas.
Really really nice work with the rust. It looked like a ton of work but it looked great.
Excellent work. It is nice to see it finally back together!
You could add some extra circuitry to generate the index pulses to replace the function of the faculty chip.
beautiful work. thanks for the great restoration.
Is that drive playing "My Sharona" by The Knack?
If so, it needs hitting with a hammer 🤪
Great job.
Nice restoration Tony. Merry Christmas 🎄❤
I just knew you would replace the chip 😅. Thanks again for a great video and love the First Contact part!
Merry Christmas and a healthy 2024.
Wow that power supply looks amazing. Great work!
Dude, this is the kind of content we need more of. Not only did you fix it, but you went the extra mile to confirm your diagnosis and then an extra light-year to meticulously restore that case. Thanks for sharing this labour-of-love with us.
You can rechrome the parts without having to paint them.
There are thousands of videos explaining how to do it in a very simple way.
If it's a real restoration, you should do it. If it's a simple repair and nothing more, what you did is fine.
Applying primer over the rust will help make it look good in the short term. But it doesn't solve the problem and will actually look worse in the medium-long term.
There is a clear difference between "repair" and "restoration". The plastic front doesn't look good.
Che meraviglia
Buon natale! ❤
Well done Tony, wonderful to see the PS/2 restored and working again. I love the idea of reusing dead hard drives with an Arduino. That may actually be the only way to make my Model 50 sound like the 1990s again 🙂 Merry Christmas!
Neato!
Thanks again for the great video, have a wonderful Christmas! Looking forward for next year's content
Awesome video! Glad the PS/2 drive worked out. Such a shame though the HDD is an issue. I had 3 drives and all 3 of them had the same exact problem.
A very nice restoration. Thanks for all your content this year and have a lovely Christmas and a safe and prosperous New Year
Good job! Very entertaining video! Thank you and Merry Christmas 🎉
I bet the IBM PS/2 is very happy to be together again, looking good and being fully functioning. I sure was happy to see the machine being restored! Merry Christmas! ^_^
Loooove your videos! Have you tried phosphoric acid to remove rust? It works like a charm 😊 It`s the same acid as in Coca-Cola, which also works with rust in a way 😉 Keep the IBMs alive. Need to finish my ovn Model 30 now 😅
merry christmas @Tony359
I doubt i would go so far as taking a chip off of a working drive and replacing the faulty one with it but it does keep it as original as possible.
Seeing you use alot of elbow grease getting that metal cleaned up did make me a bit tired.
I have a sand blasting cabinet with different types of media available and it would take no time at all to get the rust off.
End result is looking amazing, great job.
Really nice work,Tony. It almost looks like new 👍
Really good diagnosing on the floppy drive chip. But one question on that subject, how do you solder with your fingers crossed 🤣
Merry Christmas!!
Something about the IBM Dance reminds me of the Ducktales Theme – am I the only one?