PC "Tasman"
Named "Tasman" for the text engraved on the top of its plastic front and coloured in with black vivid, I have no idea how long I've had this machine or where it came from.
Specifications
These are the specifications of the machine. As far as I remember I've not changed anything, but its possible I may have installed the VGA card (it's not original to this machine - it came from a Total Peripherals PC). Despite its relatively poor cosmetic condition, it has quite decent specs and everything except perhaps the 360K floppy drive works well. While it has an RLL hard disk installed, the disk controller is only MFM so the drive is formatted as type 2 (20MB) rather than the 33MB it supports.
| Case | Desktop, unknown manufacturer, badge says "Magnum Mk II PC-AT" or perhaps "PC-2" |
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| Power Supply | Senstron SBM-4130 130W, XT form-factor (side switch) |
| CPU |
Intel 80286 @ 12MHz IIT 2C87 @ 10Mhz |
| Motherboard | Likely: CY301-V4, manufacturer unknown |
| RAM | 2MB |
| VGA | Win Computer Technologies NT-200B, ex-Total Peripherals |
| Disk Controller | Western Digital WD1003-WAH (MFM) |
| Network | None! |
| Audio | None! |
| Drives |
Seagate ST-238R (33MB RLL, 20MB MFM) - MFM formatted Mitsubishi MF504C-310M 1.2M 5.25" Chinon FZ-502 360K 5.25" (unknown condition) |
This machine currently has no allocated task, so it lives in storage. It was pulled from storage in April 2024, fully dismantled, all components cleaned and tested, then reassembled and inventoried as COMP-0002. Some minor battery corrosion on the motherboard was cleaned and two bad capacitors in the PSU replaced at this time, while the floppy drives were cleaned and lubricated. The hard disk passed all tests with zero bad sectors and currently has a clean install of MS-DOS 6.22.
Current Issues
Aside from the unknown state of the 360K floppy drive, this computer has no known issues beyond its cosmetic condition.
Inventory Data
This is a subset of the hardware inventory record for this computer. It may be more up-to-date than the rest of this page.
| Computer: | COMP-0002 Name: Tasman | |||||||||||||
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| Last Inspected | 2024-04-14 | Working? | True | Battery Changed: | 2024-04-14 | |||||||||
| Notes: | Dismantled with motherboard, cards, and HDD tested on 2024-4-4, PSU repaired 2024-4-14. Clean install of MS-DOS 6.22 on HDD. |
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| Case: | CASE-0001 Manufacturer: Unknown, Model: Magnum Mk-II PC-AT | |||||||||||||
| PSU: | POWR-0003 Manufacturer: Senstron, Model: SBM-4130, Rating: 135W | |||||||||||||
| Motherboard: | MOBO-0025 Manufacturer: Unknown, Model: CY301-V4, on The Retro Web | |||||||||||||
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