Lower prices available - read description for more info. 

Full buy it now price includes shipping to anywhere in Canada. Local pickup (Barrie, ON) gets a discount. Lower US 48 add $79 CAD for shipping. International buyers CONTACT FIRST.


US buyers - capitalize on the CAD-US exchange rate today. Don't forget to check out The Kombinator on youtube to see how I build retro machines!

Pre-configured, complete system from 1998! Era correct!  

Reasonable offers welcome ;) Time spent configuring, cleaning and setting up these systems is certainly not trivial. Systems are cleaned thoroughly and disinfected before being shipped.

Lowball offers will be ignored, repeated low ballers will be black listed from my listings. 

Without display - remove $20 via Buy It Now
Keyboard, mouse, speakers (if applicable) - remove $10 ea. via Buy It Now


Listing is for an Ambra  434EZ  computer - this one is an odd one. It looks like it was used as either a POS or a home entertainment system. The original hard drive booted just once, into a Chinese version of Windows 2000 - it made a noise that I had never heard before, then the 4GB drive died. Hard. So I replaced it with a 6.4 GB drive onto which I installed XP and Win98SE through a combination of floppy and CDROM installation. I then took a LOT of time getting the drivers loaded to both OSes. Windows XP sees most of the drivers, the graphics were force-handed with 98 drivers, it sees the card but it reports it as incompatible, yet 1024x768x16bit. USB is OK, you can move files to the FAT partition. LAN drivers are loaded on both OSes and do see my home network. Win 98 does not see the USB drivers nor the modem. 

The case is ultra slim, 9/10 condition. There's an SVIDEO and Composite out, as well as what seems to be an IR sensor up front and separate headphone jacks, which leads me to believe that it was an early HiFi system. I could not find any information about the model number, but knowing Ambra's run, this is probably one of if not THE last series they made. The LAN card is working in both OSes. I have created two partitions, a 1.2 GB FAT32 partition and a 4 GB NTFS. All the games pick up the integrated sound card without issues.  The drivers for the machine are loaded and copied onto the FAT partition. I paired it with an IBM keyboard, mouse, and (cough) Acer speakers. Black, to be sure. The inside of the machine is spectacularly clean - even the Sony CMOS battery has good voltage. 

In any case, I have refurbished this machine and it is completely ready - the integrated sound card is fully SB compatible, and works well with old games.

This is a great retro gaming machine, or for industrial applications.

Specs:

-IBM Ambra Micro desktop format, ATX 60w power supply
-Cyrix Cx5520 chipset
-160 Mb RAM
-Cyrix MediaGX 233 Mhz MMX CPU
-Cyrix MediaGX (Acumos AVGA2) 2Mb RAM, integrated video 
-Cyrix integrated sound, fully SB compatible sound card
-Samsung SC-148 CDROM (IDE), 48x
-Integrated I/O
-IDE Fujitsu MPE3064AT 6.4 GB drive, No bad sectors or strange noises.
-1.44 Mb floppy drive (a:\)
-IBM PS/2 ball mouse 
-IBM 104 key PS/2 keyboard
-IBM 6730-AC0 17 inch LCD monitor
-Windows XP, 98SE, games
-All power adapters/cables


Buyer is expected to know how to operate Windows 98, XP, and DOS to take full advantage of this system. I do not provide any kind of tutoring or tech support, however don't hesitate to ask something before you buy. Despite best efforts and rigorous checks, this is a vintage piece of hardware and I cannot offer a warranty on it, nor can I accept returns. I have sold a number of vintage computers, and have had no issues.

International shipments (outside of USA) must be cleared first. CONTACT ME FIRST to get a quote. 

I insure the item at full purchase price.

Item will be discounted if a local pickup is done (Barrie area) make an offer.