Probably an XT running at 10 MHz, guessing by the model # (DTK made XT motherboards before building their own systems). Found photos of another Swan XT10, the firscards appear to be the same (floppy controller, serial and parallel ports). May or may not have a hard drive, the one I found photos of didn't.
Monitor is made by Samsung for Imtec, but I can't find anything else about it. With it having white lettering on the screen, it's probably a color monitor (likely CGA).
Thank you so much! I knew this was the right place for answers, but well now km curious, why are people into this much older machines? Im starting to think they are neet.
Everyone has their reasons - for some of us old farts, it's nostalgia (same reason some of us have CRT TVs and older game systems hooked up to them, though the old game systems really do look better on a CRT).
BTW, google the FCC ID on stuff that you need info on when the model # doesn't turn anything up. You'll often get at least some info - that's how I found out the monitor was actually made by Samsung. That particular FCC ID turned up very little info though.
Just remember that shipping that thing is going to be expensive. I would strongly suggest packing and weighing it ahead of time. You may find that you have to charge $150 or more for shipping, which is going to eat into what people are willing to pay for this thing.
I remember when systems like this could be found at like any secondhand shop for like 20USD on the high end. Just as they were falling into utter uselessness as home PCs, but before hardware actually started to die off.
What someone else asks for it on 'ebay' doesn't guarantee you will get the same.
Most of the time it's not exactly the same, and if some twat asks 100 dollar for a one dollar bill, doesn't mean he will get it sold.
Just a standard IBM clone worth maybe $150-200 depending on motherboard condition and cards inside. Looks to be XT-era and does have a nice keyboard. Not super valuable, but decent for a retro computer. Someone on Ebay will surely take it.
looks like the keyboard connector is missing? I'm betting it broke off and is floating around inside? possibly due to battery leakage corrosion?
though it's posting so it's fixable.
Open it up and have a look at the cards. From the back there doesn't seem to be anything unusual, but might have something in there that is sought after for it's future compatibility and ease of use in other retro systems.
Also, info on the keyboard...
https://deskthority.net/wiki/Chicony\_KB-5161
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