Goodwill Computerworks Museum is open - * - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

20 Aug 2000

Quite all wrong.

PS/1 was the ISA-16 (AT bus) repsonse to the PS/2s lack of interest
due to it's MCA bus.  It was designed to be low cost and compatable.

I have a PS/1 Consultant (486sx/25) here.  Nice generic box not unlike
the
DELL 4xx series.

Allison

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles P. Hobbs (SoCalTip) &lt;transit(a)lerctr.org&gt;
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org &lt;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&gt;
Date: Sunday, August 20, 2000 10:39 PM
Subject: RE: Goodwill Computerworks Museum is open - *

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On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Sellam Ismail wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Bill Dawson wrote:
>
> > Early 128K IBM PS/1 with 5.25" floppy drive and PS/1 power cube, PS1
> > keyboard (not chicklets), separate PS/1 color monitor, 2 PS/1 joysticks,
...
 > > and a large box of IBM software (games and
educational) in the IBM
>
> I always wondered what era the IBM PS/1 is from?  I've seen PS/1 machines
...
 > but they look 90s.  And I never heard of them
before the PS/2, although it
...
   would seem
logical that the PS/1 came first.  What's the deal? 
PS/1 came out a bit after the PS/2, if I recall correctly. It was
a "cut-down" version of the PS/2 for home use. It lacked some things
that the PS/2 had, but I forget what. (Shades of the PCjr)