30 Nov
1998
30 Nov
'98
4:16 p.m.
Max Eskin wrote:
I saw an odd machine in a thrift store today, a machine
labelled a PS/1,
but it
looked nothing like the PS/1 valuepoints, or any other
PC I've ever seen.
It
looked like a cross between a PCjr and a soap dish. One
3.5" floppy drive,
huge
ugly vents and IBM logo on the front, on the back are
ports for mouse,
keyboard, VGA, 2400 bps modem, and parallel printer. It also has a little
fan
and some sort of slot cover that fell out. Where is the
power switch? Where
does the power connect to?
That's the original PS/1, a 286 with an almost totally closed architecture.
Needs the special monitor to give it power.
I happened to pick up a lone monitor like this last week. Pity I'm in
Australia though.
I've only seen a couple of these around here in the last few years.
Hans Olminkhof