24 Sep
1999
24 Sep
'99
10:51 a.m.
On 22 Sep 99 at 20:31, Allison J Parent wrote:
Ok... by the book:
PS2/m25 is a 8086 (xt class) with 3 ISA slots and floppies
PS2/M30 is the same with a hard disk.
There was a PS2/8530 XT and a PS2/8530 AT. I have both machines.
That and the trackstar board was only availabel as ISA
that I can find
data on. They were most commonly seen around here in Tandy 1000sx/ex
machines.
the PS1/m25 is 286 as are a slew of other PS1 ISA models but they
are somehow modeled as PS1 members of the PS2 family of PC systems.
Now we have a subspecies of a species I guess.
Bizzare but they are all 85xx-xxx! So much for consistant naming.
To my mind the PS/1's all had a 2xxx-xxx designation. I have a 2011
which is a 286. The monitor unit contains the PSU. It also had a built-in
2400 modem. The 2021 is virtually identical but IIRC had more memory.
I also have a 2123 and a 2133 which were 386's.
<BTW, all PS/2, many PS/1s, some Aptivas, any IBM
machines were good
<made quality-wise even case components and circuit boards.
I have a PS2/25 (8530-001) and a PS2/m50z 8550-061 and they are certainly
well made and easy to work on. A lot of people like the ps2/m25s as they
were ISA and fast for XT with good video and a nice small pizza box.
the ugly ones (to some) were the integral monitor varients.
Allison
I have 5 other PS/2 MCAs , my favorite being the 8580 which introduced
the PS/2 line, MCA, and VGA . A full tower built like a tank which could be
dissassembled in a minute with a dime. It cost $10,000. bare.
ciao larry
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