17 Jun
1998
17 Jun
'98
2:23 p.m.
At 09:52 PM 6/17/98 EDT, you wrote:
In a message dated 98-06-17 20:42:34 EDT, you write:
<< >hey, Hey,HEY! ps2 machines were announced in 1987 so they should be
talked
Yes, I agree with that!
and well
about rather than destroyed. no matter what anyone
says, they were state of
the art. certainly way ahead for their time.
You MUST be kidding!
Joe >>
actually, i'm not. they WERE ahead of their time. expensive designed.
Well designed for cheap manufacturing!
the first pc type machine with level sensitive interrupts. they can
be worked on and disassembled without tools,
You've never taken apart a model 35 have you?
extensive grounding on the
circuits lowered emissions, real plug and play that
worked,
It doesn't work on my 80!
some machines had
IML partition and scsi, hi speed uarts, autoconfig,
sharing IRQ's, bi-
directional lpt port,
Nearly all PCs have had bidirestional ports since the beginning. In fact,
the only ones that didn't have it from the beginning were IBMs. I spent two
years installing software with Lap-Link and a null MODEM (printer?) cable
and I KNOW!
the standard keyboard and mouse we use today,
I don't! My PC uses the standard DIN and DB-9 connectors. The biggest
reason that the PS-2 connectors are used is because of their small size and
the limited room on lap tops.
so on and
so forth. i've got a model 77 with builtin scsi
that i know will outlast any
other pc of its era.
I have a model 80 with built in SCSI that won't survive the next trash
pick up! My neighbor just pitched his model 70. I didn't bother to take
it out of the trash! I have a LOT of PCs that are a lot older than any PS-2
ever made! Altair -1976, IBM 5100 - 1977, HP 9100 - 1968, lots of HP
9815s, HP 9825s and HP 85s from the '70s.
You left out the idiotic micro-channel bus!
Joe
david