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I'll bet good money that an IBM PC or PC XT that has been properly stored will boot up and be more or less as usable today as it was the day it was put to stora
by ido 8y ago
I'll bet good money that an IBM PC or PC XT that has been properly stored will boot up and be more or less as usable today as it was the day it was put to storage (especially the floppy-only models without an hdd).
- zaarn 8y agoPossibly, though I would still check capacitors and any voltage regulation (transformer and linear) to make sure it won't blow up suddenly because some wire coating rotted through.
- ido 8y agoI guess another candidate are any batteries leaking, but IIRC the PC & XT didn't have battery backed clocks & therefor no battery on the motherboard.