I got ... I don't Know?

[Crazy_Opossum]

Well, I know it's an old computer with an Oak Technologies chip in it, due to the start up screen but I don't have a keyboard so it wont go any further, But I got it for free and I am Ecstatic about it... I just don't know what "it" is.

 

[Razor Knuckles]

What does that sticker on the top image bottom left say?

[Shadow Kisuragi]

It's an old IBM PC, I believe. Likely running DOS or a DOS-based architecture.

[Crazy_Opossum]

What does that sticker on the top image bottom left say?

Bentec Computers Inc.

[Duke.Togo]

Oak Tech made sound cards a looooong time ago. Probably a 386 or 486.

[nupoile]

Interesting it has a 3.5" drive but not a 5.25" or CDROM drive.

[nupoile]

Also, it doesn't have mini jack sound output, no ps2 ports.....

[Shadow Kisuragi]

That would place this PC around '90-'91.

[nupoile]

I think so too. Maybe '92. Just from guessing on these outside pictures, I would guess it's likely this was a budget machine used in an office.

That might be a game port on there, which is nice and would make this a workable, period accurate, gaming machine.

Can you open it up and take pictures of the inside?

[Crazy_Opossum]

the "guts"

[nupoile]

So now that I see the inside.....I know nothing   

In second picture up ^   on the left side, near were the power goes into the motherboard, there seems to be a bit of corrosion. There is also something which has power going to it, right above a blue thing (huge capacitor?)

In one of your first pictures, of the backside, in the middle, at the bottom, there is a quarter sized circle. Looks like it might be a cover to the powered item. Can you pull off the cover? What does that look like?




Oh, and there is a manufactured date on the power supply, what does it say?

[Crazy_Opossum]

the Date is "81. 5, 30"
 heres the pic with the off

[nupoile]

I'm still going to go with Dukes', Shadow's and my guesses earlier but, I'm sorry to say, all those extra pictures I had you take doesn't help me out because I just don't know enough.

Back then, there were so many different computer builds and parts that did the same things could look so different from one another....

[Crazy_Opossum]

All the Info I got from looking in it is:

Morex Power Supply Mfg Date: 81. 5, 30; 110V/220V Switchable
Oak Technologies OTIVGA TX2953526 Sound Card (c) 1991
Goldstar Prime 2

[bum-man]

That port nupoile had you uncover looks to me like it should be where the keyboard plugs in (with a 5 Pin DIN) but it wouldn't make sense to run power that that connector.  Can you tell where those wires run?  Other than that I don't see any place a keyboard would plug in.

That Goldstar Prime 2 looks like a standard ISA multi IO card.  It handles the hard drive, floppy, serial, parallel, and joystick/midi ports.  Before everything was put on-board that was what most systems had.