Olivetti M280

[Irinikus]

I have this machine sitting at my home in Cape Town. (I still haven't taken a look at it yet)

It's missing it's hard drive, as I acquired it from the DOD, so they wouldn't let it go with the drive in the machine. (So I'm going to have to get one of these bad-boys for it!.)

I also have the original keyboard for it, but lack the original EGA monitor. (I will have to see if I can get my hands on a fancy ISA VGA card for it.)

It's a really cool system and definitely one of the most solidly built systems I've ever encountered.

Here's a quick view of the inside of this machine:

 

[Elf]

Edit: With apologies, I no longer wish to have involvement with SGUG or SGI communities in general,
and have also chosen to remove all of my content. Many things have changed since I co-founded, named, and ultimately
then left SGUG. There are many good people around, to whom I apologize for frustrating by removing these things, and
also many petty people that over the years whittled down both the enjoyment as well as sense of obligation I used to
feel to anyone else regarding what was ultimately just a hobby. Unfortunately one of the latter now writes the rules
and so it is time for me to take my things and go.

This message will replace all of my previous forum posts because deleting threads that I started would have removed
other peoples' posts.

 

[Irinikus]

That's for sure, as there seems to be allot of hardware (circuitry) inside this thing! (It's definitely one of the largest motherboards I've seen in a PC!)