Looking at this find of yours I have to say I'd be torn what to do with it.
On one hand I want to say that it would really be a pity to gut/part out a PS/2 Model 80 like this since it's one of the first ones. (The 16Mhz models were the first 80386 produced by IBM, just beaten to market by the Compaq Deskpro.) Although the upgrade CPU sort of kills it so far as being a pristine "museum piece" in compensation it does have one of the rarer bits that would make it a marginally useful machine today (assuming you actually want a DOS or slow OS/2 machine for something), namely the SCSI card. Replacement MFM/ESDI drives for PS/2s are unobtanium these days. (The absolute worst were the completely proprietary "it's sort of like ESDI and IDE had a mutant lovechild" drives they used in some of their smaller desktop machines like the otherwise beautiful Model 55sx.)
On the other hand it's a huge hulking slug-slow beast that's getting pretty darn hard to find other parts for and if you lack the interest to dig into it for its own sake it's pretty much a huge, boring, if somewhat historically interesting paperweight. IBM did sell a lot of these things so they can't be *that* rare... can they?
Might be worth trying to hawk it on eBay before you gut it. One side effect of the PS/2's neat modular design is it would be something of a challenge to hack anything else into it without seriously butchering the case. (Witness a young John Dvorak bad-temperedly ripping a PS/2 apart if you need some inspiration, however.)
On one hand I want to say that it would really be a pity to gut/part out a PS/2 Model 80 like this since it's one of the first ones. (The 16Mhz models were the first 80386 produced by IBM, just beaten to market by the Compaq Deskpro.) Although the upgrade CPU sort of kills it so far as being a pristine "museum piece" in compensation it does have one of the rarer bits that would make it a marginally useful machine today (assuming you actually want a DOS or slow OS/2 machine for something), namely the SCSI card. Replacement MFM/ESDI drives for PS/2s are unobtanium these days. (The absolute worst were the completely proprietary "it's sort of like ESDI and IDE had a mutant lovechild" drives they used in some of their smaller desktop machines like the otherwise beautiful Model 55sx.)
On the other hand it's a huge hulking slug-slow beast that's getting pretty darn hard to find other parts for and if you lack the interest to dig into it for its own sake it's pretty much a huge, boring, if somewhat historically interesting paperweight. IBM did sell a lot of these things so they can't be *that* rare... can they?
Might be worth trying to hawk it on eBay before you gut it. One side effect of the PS/2's neat modular design is it would be something of a challenge to hack anything else into it without seriously butchering the case. (Witness a young John Dvorak bad-temperedly ripping a PS/2 apart if you need some inspiration, however.)