2020 Gaming PC

.. or maybe not

Limelight 2020 personal workstation

I came across this random computer. It didn't (and still doesn't) work, but I thought I take it apart to figure out what it might be.

 

I suspected it might be some sort of XT clone, and indeed, inside is a M80C86 from OKI. Isn't "M"for "military"? Looking at things, this looks like a clone of a Tandy laptop (which itself was a clone of the IBM).

I took this baby apart, because the floppy drives where kind of stuck - they would not take disks. And also I wanted to check for any bios batteries to remove.

Yeah - greetings from 昭和６２年, that thing has been removed.

It came with 2 expansion cards

Here some pictures of the mother and daughter boards

I was able to get the floppies going, but looking at the age of this thing, it probably wants DD disks, which I currently do not have. Speaking of the floppies, they are not standard - some weird thing going on with the eject button being in the middle.

Also - check out this keyboard. I like that there are even extra Y/N keys - amazing.

The keyboards lower keys where all stuck, but pulling them out and giving them a few days rest seems to have fixed them. The machine is also incredibly clean, seems like it was never really used. Not sure what to do with it though. Unfortunately it does not have a monitor out and even though the display (barely) works, it's not really great for doing anything with.