I got this unique machine and thought it was absolutely gorgeous, but I wasn't able to do much with it. It came with a monitor and floppy drives, and when I powered it on it didn't display anything, and that left a lot of uncertainties. Was the monitor bad? I can't easily connect anything else to it. Was the computer bad? I can't easily connect another monitor to it. Were both the monitor and computer fine, but required the original boot disks before anything would be displayed? Good luck finding those. And for all of its lack of functionality, it was also huge.

The one sign of life it showed was that the 1-7 keys (the ones at top, which probably were used as function keys) would light up from behind, and that alone was a sight to see, but I don't have photo evidence of that. Besides that, it just sat there.

So I put it back into the boxes I received it in and put the whole thing away, in the only place I possibly could store a thing of that size and shape while still being out of the way - on top of the unused dresser in the corner of the room. Even then it managed to occasionally get in the way! And it stayed there for about two or three years until I finally admitted to myself that it wasn't going to come to life in my hands and someone who was going to do something with it should have it. So I took it down and photographed it a bit before putting it up for auction.

I probably had never looked at the bottom before and woah what a mess. I don't know where that rust or corrosion came from or where it is going to, but I hope the new owner doesn't have too bad a time with the motherboard due to it.

I am not actually sure about the manufacture date. Apparently the SORD M200 series came out in 1977 and this model was released "sometime later." And I am led to believe that the OS is actually MF-DOS, so the detail in the "basic information" section is not a typo for MS-DOS (not that MS-DOS was around in '78, anyway, obviously).