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That keyboard looks like it is very beat up BUT still seems to have nice mechanical switches, there is quite the market for vintage mechanical boards to recover switches from. I would recommend selling the keyboard to a mechanical keyboard enthusiast lmao

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It looks like very generic IBM clone from mid-90s. Columbia Systems was most likely some smaller boutique shop (in terms like what Puget, Origin and such are today) that assembled PCs. Our first PC from 1994 looked bit like that, so did all our school PCs until early-00s. So I doubt you will find anything with just searching for that company. If you can open it up and look up some part models, you might get better luck

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Looks like a generic, white box, Baby AT PC clone, late 80s to mid 90s. It could be anything from a 386 to a Pentium MMX. (If you're very lucky, it could be a Super Socket 7 board with an AMD K6-III.) The monitor is probably newer than the PC.

 

Like @LogicalDrmsaid, you'll have to get model numbers off the motherboard and expansion cards to know for certain what you have. Armed with that knowledge, we might be able to help you get it going. If we can't, the people at Vogons definitely can. (Just be mindful of posting in the right subforum, they're really touchy about that over there.)

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Check the power supply before powering up.

1) Some models had a hard switch for 110/220 volts. Make sure it matches your power outlet

2) Open the case, do a visual inspection of any burnt spots, blown caps.

 

As others have said looks like a lat 80's early 90's PC. It might boot, if you really want to run it long term get a new hard drive, or a sd-card to ide adapter.

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You can go over to bootdisk dot com (Note I spelled that so it's not an actual weblink) and grab a copy of either the Win 95 or Win 98 floppy boot disk.
I will say if you can find one for an even older OS such as Win 3.1 that would be even better in the case of your machine.

In any regard you can download whatever bootdisk version you want to try, set it up on a disk and see if the machine will try to boot from it.
Just make sure your floppy "A" drive is functional and properly cleaned too so it can read the disk.

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