18 Dec
2015
18 Dec
'15
12:15 p.m.
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