What mysteries lurk inside this mint Turbo XT?

You need a bigger table to keep computer and keyboard together...

Mitac also made floppy drives, I have a couple for the old Apple II. The drive is identical to my Mitac drive except for the color, mine are white.

I remember the advertisement for it: it said it had an elephant's memory because it had 256 Kb of Ram. But even then that was the least ram seen on PC class machines. Even the Amstrads were called 1512 for the 512Kb

I just about cracked up, as he said it was a miniscribe drive. I said in my mind... the brick... and then Adrian said its not one of the br8icks. lol

BR is not a rechargeable battery - BR i means longer shelf life / a bit higher capacity.

This one is more cathartic and Tech ASMR than the CoCo one. It makes me remember that in days gone by we actually had much more control over the world than now. You rescued this machine from a death by word processing and gave it new life as a game machine (although limited). I can sleep now. You made today complete.

Dear Adrian! I need your help. Any information or link. I have a mitac mpc-1000 motherboard. All we could find out is that oscillations only appear when using 8086. 8088 does not show activity. Maybe you have seen information, photos, BIOS?

A kind gentleman recently gave me a machine very much like this. I hope they know how much I appreciated it!

Awesome video. That 6th blank with no card slot can be used for cabled ports…

the yellowing on the knobs is most definitely nicotine stains. from the fingertips of a smoker.

I’ve always liked the look of an amber colored monitor.

Reminds me of the x86 machines we used in engineering school. So much MS-DOS.

i might be wrong, but the computer and the monitor, dont seem to share a history together, because the computer more or less seems not to have been used that much and the amount of files on there, says the same, so my guess is its maybe has become a backup computer, if another went down

it looks like it was just yesterday, what a beauty

I suspect the high prices on the IBM, NCR and ITT systems were a bit of a smokescreen - they mainly sold to businesses with considerable volume discounts. Those volume discounts wouldn't look as spicy if the consumer price wasn't jacked up.

This was an awesome video, Adrian. Love myself some tech archeology.

A great XT clone, certainly. Preserved so well and truly it's a keeper! Beautiful inside and out. I see why they sold and won the market. PC software, ubiquity and the modular design were hugely important. But boy oh boy were PC's primitive in many ways compared to Amigas.

Awesome! I just picked up a mint condition Mitac 386.

Awesome, thanks for sharing