13 Jan
2003
13 Jan
'03
4:14 p.m.
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 01:04, Lawrence Walker wrote:
What is this upsurge
of interest with them ? Simply because they were an
all-
in one machine ? Then I would posit the 20xx line which
like some Amstrads had electronics which wouldn't work
unless you had the whole unit. And of course the many
other all-in-ones like the PET or H-89 or many others.
It was a design that had long been dead.
I assume this vitriol was aimed at myself since my reply is quoted
below. The interest of the original poster stems from his previous
encounter with the machine - not unlike many other machines which are
collected simply out of nostalgia.
I just though I'd share my setup for the very reason mentioned above.
No more, no less.
Jeff
Lawrence
On 13 Jan 2003, , Jeffrey H. Ingber wrote:
I owned a model 25 a number of years ago. This
one actually
had a 30MB HDD that used a seperate controller. I also had
an 8-slot ISA expansion box from a comapny called Pacific
Coast Horizons (PCH, I think that was the name of the
outfit). Also had an NEC CDR-72 single speed CD-ROM (SCSI)
and an MPU-401/MT-32 setup.
Jeff
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 16:38, Daniel Hicks wrote:
lgwalker@ mts.net
Thanks, I am quite familiar with them. In my high school
I was in charging of maintaining the ten that we had in a
small computer lab. If I recall, they had 20-MB hard
drives and a single 720-k floppy drive. we used DOS and
WordPerfect 5.1 on them. The school gave them all to me
after I graduated, and like a fool I trashed them (along
with 10 model 80's, and 10 old Zenith machines) Now
nostalgia is setting in and I would like to get my hands
on one again.
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Allain" <allain(a)panix.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: IBM PS/2 Model 25
> > I am looking for a good, cheap PS/2 Model 25 (sx I
> > think). ... Again, looking for cheap.
>
> Be prepared. Typically 25's are 8086 with no hard
> drive. The options you want probably existed but would
> make the model considerably rarer.
>
> John A.
>