Retrotech ahoy

[Shystar06]

As my father starts to clear out his garage (much to the celebration of my long-suffering mother) I inherited a gargantuan of a computer that's the size of a small suitcase and about as heavy as a baby elephant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Portable_Personal_Computer

For it's time, this monster was actually cutting-edge because taking a fully functional computer with monitor in an all-in-one unit was nearly unheard of.

Thanks to a very helpful website dedicated to these machines, I'm identifying just what the heck is inside it before attempting to put it up for sale.

If anyone happens to know a computer museum or eccentric collector who might actually want this thing - in functioning condition with two giant disk drives - let me know!

some photos of the inside

https://ibb.co/RzqHvND
https://ibb.co/0Gk3HZp
https://ibb.co/5Ycb1hj
https://ibb.co/SvFnQ1b
https://ibb.co/2SL76KN
https://ibb.co/kMfHJbg
https://ibb.co/b1ZRRGr

[madds]

wow thats an amazing find! from what i know most museums in general rely on free donations rather than paying for exhibitions

A computer museum that seems to be currently accepting artifact donations is: https://www.computermuseumofamerica.org/donate-artifacts/  I didn't see the IBM portable personal computer on their desired items list, but I couldn't seem to see it on their exhibition page so I'm assuming they don't have it? So it might be worth a shot! There are quite a few computer museums in the U.S but not all of them are currently accepting artifact donations. 

If your wanting to sell it i'm sure there are computer collectors out there who'd be interested!
there are some forum boards that are dedicated to vintage computers and buying/selling them such as: https://forum.vcfed.org/
i've also seen many vintage computers sold on ebay

I wish you goodluck! I'm sure there will be someone who wants to give it a good home