BRAND NEW IBM PS/2 Model 80 Part 1

Imagine finding a 20 year old computer system in the ORIGINAL BOX! Well, I found the next best thing; an original IBM PS/2 Model 80 386 that was built in 9/1990, refurbished, and sold to a moving company in 12/1991. For some reason, the machine was never unboxed; it sat in a warehouse until 1/2009, when I purchased it from a surplus equipment company for a fraction of the 1991 price tag of $10,000. This is the series of videos I shot while unboxing and awakening this iron beast of the days of DOS and OS/2. Enjoy!

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• antique
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• ibm
• ps/2
• model
• 80
• unbox
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• 1990
• 1991

[leileilol]

what would've made this 693% sweeter is before turning it on, you swap the HD in your main and VHD dump that baby then put it back. MESS PRESERVATION FTW

[bbishoppcm]

@leileilol WHAAA!?!?



[bbishoppcm]

@leileilol There was nothing on the drive to preserve...

[burkezillar]

You mentioned that the PS/2 keyboards were made up until recently. Who was making them until then? And where can I get some?! I need one for my home PC, and maybe the laptop lol

[bbishoppcm]

Lexmark was making them until the late 90s for IBM.

[arsenal553]

Awesome find. Subbed.

[emomotorgeek]

you are one lucky bastard. I've had to settle for one very worn Model 80 out of the store room at an old state office, sans monitor, keyboard and mouse.

[GP1138]

This is very cool, geek porn. Thanks for filming the unboxing.

[supermasterPIK]

@eisigerwind This model set PS/2 colored plugs as a standard.

[Daehawk]

Back then I would have killed for one of those. I wouldn't get one till 1994 and it was an AST 486SX33. Damn those were truly the days back then. i miss them so much.

[josys36]

Awesome! Love the PS/2 line. Have a few myself.

[silvercondouloboy06]

Brand new in box IBM Model M, an IBM Manufactured one. Awesome. (Lexmark wasn't spun off of IBM until 91 or 92). And I believe it was IBM that manufactured the Gray Label ones, and the blue label Model M's were Lexmark Model M's. And Unicomp still manufactures them here in Kentucky.

I don't have either a Blue or Gray label one, I have two original Silver Logo IBM Model M's from early 1986.