18 Mar
1999
18 Mar
'99
10:01 p.m.
Another strange find today, a PS-2 with a pull out hard
drive. It's a Model
50 and has a steel box about 2.5" x 4" located bewteen the floppy drive and
OFF/ON switch. There's a keylock below it and a chrome handle on the box.
The box is about 7.5 deep and has a 50 pin SCSI type connector on the rear
that mates with socket in the machine. On top of th ebox it's marked
"Standard 5.0 software loaded 29 Jan 93". There is also a sticker on the
front of the computer that says "IVT PS 50RD". Has anyone ever seen one of
these before?
Joe
Based on the Era of the computer I'd guess it was a system that was part of
some Military system. The first systems I ever saw removable HD's on were
systems modified for the Military. That way the drive could be pulled out
and locked up.
Of course now it's finally getting easy to find the sleds, one of my PC's
has 4 different sleds, each with a different OS.
Zane
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