18 Dec
2015
18 Dec
'15
12:41 p.m.
On 2015-12-18 4:15 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
Ok I was thinking more of the P75, I remember seeing the same 320 or
400MB disks that where used in early RS/6000 systems in them. The P70,
now that I check the documentation the P70, did in fact have an ESDI
disk with the built in controller, a kind of microchannel IDE disk.
Paul.
On Dec 18,
2015, at 12:03 PM, Paul Berger <phb.hfx at gmail.com> wrote:
The screen on the convertable is not plasma, it is a LCD screen and there where two
versions one reflective and the other backlit. In the PS/2 days there where suitcase size
machines with plasma displays but they only had a single diskette drive that folded out of
the front, one model is the 8573-P70. There where 386 and 486 versions of these machines
with microchannel card slots and a SCSI disk.
Again, no. They did not ship with a SCSI disk. They used the same disks as were
in the model 50 & 70 (which were *not* SCSI).
A number of us at IBM (who worked on the SCSI cards spock & tribble) did fit the card
(usually spock because it had 512KB of cache) and an IBM 320MB SCSI drive in the P70. It
was *not* a standard (ie orderable) configuration but at the time created a wicked
machine!
TTFN - Guy