ScuzzBlog: Diaries May 2018 Entry 3rd May 2018: Post: 1 I came in search of a black monitor.. PS/2, Apricot, Compaq, 1084S Ok this a pretty typical day in the life my retro world. I have started a little series on the luggable computer and yesterday featured the Osborne. Today it was the turn of the IBM PS/2. Thing was that I knew I had an old IBM behind the large table in the store. I was dreading trying to dig it out cus this is an old office desk and has a vertical rear panel. Which meant I not only needed to clear everything from top of the desk but also in front. Took me most of the morning. See the first picture which is the right side of my long thin store area. To the left is stacked to the ceiling with plastic tubs. Tricky space this. Anyway, I found the second of my IBMs and also an Apricot portable. Checking my pictures on the site I could see that it came with a small monitor, the Apricot that is. So time to find that. Stacked the very top of some monitors was a black monitor but it was for the Sinclair Professional computer... Scratches head. Why was this here, I thought I had this stored bottom of a set of shelves. OK so I then moved to another area and I was soon digging out a black monitor to the base of the shelves. Turned out to be a CDTV 1084S monitor.. see next post. Eventually I opened the store cupboard and found the Apricot monitor on top of a stack of magazines. No idea if it works. Behind the table I also found a Compaq desktop that I think is broken I will check. The C64 Terminator boxed set is now in the left hand storage area. I also found the power supply to the Yamaha MSX. I have learnt my lesson today not to put things behind desks. Not only did I have to disconnect and move computers I had to check afterwards that they were all working again. All back tidy so onwards. Cuppa tea. That big desk First find.. IBM PS/2 P70 386 Next the Apricot Finally found the banged up old monitor Stacked on its end was the Compaq The Sinclair Professional Series monitor And finally the CDTV Commodore 1084S PC200

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