And you too Mr. Tomas, I wouldn't be able to do anything with my Japanese PS/55 systems without the hard work of you and countless others. I'm new here so I guess this is my introductory post - don't worry, my regular posts won't be this verbose.
I owned a PS/55Z 5530 sometime around 2014 but only got into the MCA world properly in late 2016, right as I was about to move back to Australia from Japan. A PS/55 Type 5551-T09 appeared for a reasonable price and I bought it without realising itwouldn't arrive until AFTER the rest of my belongings had been shipped. I had no choice but to take it on the plane with me, alongside its massive 5576-001 keyboard - you should've seen the look on that Narita security guy's face. After a long battle
Well, long story short, I regretted the sale almost instantly and began setting aside funds to buy another 5551.
Late last year, I managed to get my hands on an externally pretty but internally troubled 5551-T19 and set to work fixing it up. After replacing a million leaky capacitors on the main board, FDD, and HDD, I had a nicely working machine. The 20MHz 386DXwithin was a bit too slow for the sorts of games I enjoy playing, so I started looking for CPU upgrades and managed to snag a destroyed (case-wise) V2 planar version 5551 with an IBM Blue Lightning 25/75MHz upgrade, RAM card, and 120MB ESDI drive inside.
That motherboard and PSU ended up working perfectly, so I gave it the top cover from my 5551-T19, a PS/2 8513 monitor I found locally, my trusty old 5576-001 keyboard, re-capped the ESDI drive, and here we are today. I've been enjoying the new FastDoomport and just installed a Texelec Resound New Wave MCA Sound Blaster clone tonight, fulfilling a dream I've had since 2016 of playing Doom on a PS/55 at a reasonable framerate with proper sound. I was going to build my own Snark Barker MCA using TubeTime'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJcMzgcUf8Q&ab_channel=DeChief
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