Wanted: IBM NetVista
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 6:28 pm
Hello,
I know this is not ThinkPad or ThinkCentre related, but it's IBM at least!
I am considering buying this lovely IBM NetVista, to be my new desktop computer!
I am replacing just about everything inside with better stuff (except for the floppy diskette drive), and so I've picked this case because I love the design, and it's the right age that it's a normal form factor! No IBM proprietary insanity!!!
I have some IBM ThinkCentres at home that I got for free, but they're all completely proprietary. The motherboard, the PCI slots are backwards, upside down and sideways, even the floppy drive is nonstandard, so they are useless to me.
If anyone has one of these with or without parts inside that is of horizonal orientation, and standard setup (the PCI cards on the right of the I/O ports) and preferably not slim, so it can fit a standard ATX PSU, please let me know!
Thanks,
Thomas
I know this is not ThinkPad or ThinkCentre related, but it's IBM at least!
I am considering buying this lovely IBM NetVista, to be my new desktop computer!
I am replacing just about everything inside with better stuff (except for the floppy diskette drive), and so I've picked this case because I love the design, and it's the right age that it's a normal form factor! No IBM proprietary insanity!!!
I have some IBM ThinkCentres at home that I got for free, but they're all completely proprietary. The motherboard, the PCI slots are backwards, upside down and sideways, even the floppy drive is nonstandard, so they are useless to me.
If anyone has one of these with or without parts inside that is of horizonal orientation, and standard setup (the PCI cards on the right of the I/O ports) and preferably not slim, so it can fit a standard ATX PSU, please let me know!
Thanks,
Thomas