A wave of painful nostalgia just hit me hard. I have a few old IBM machines that do not work anymore. When I got them – the usual way: people tossed them because they were outdated old junk – many of them were still operational. That was about 20 years ago. Over time they failed. Especially the MFM HDDs are anything but reliable. It might be possible to recap the boards or even get replacement versions for the PSUs, but there is probably no way to revive that feeling of listening to a Seagate ST-225 hard drive in action.
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