9 Jun
2016
9 Jun
'16
7:39 p.m.
So today I picked up something I had never seen before - an IBM 3511.
This is a large tower expansion chassis for the PS/2 line. It looks
very straightforward - but can any of you PS/2 fans comment on this?
Was it an unsuccessful product? Low demand item?
--
Will
9 Jun
9 Jun
7:51 p.m.
Did not exist during my time at IBM. Must be a later ps/2 thing. I may
have some parts related to it though.
Bill
Bill Degnan
twitter: billdeg
vintagecomputer.net
On Jun 9, 2016 10:39 PM, "William Donzelli" <wdonzelli at gmail.com>
wrote:
So today I picked up something I had never seen before
- an IBM 3511.
This is a large tower expansion chassis for the PS/2 line. It looks
very straightforward - but can any of you PS/2 fans comment on this?
Was it an unsuccessful product? Low demand item?
--
Will
7:55 p.m.
3511 seems to have been a thing from 1990 through 1993, according to IBM.
--
Will
On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 10:51 PM, william degnan <billdegnan at gmail.com> wrote:
Did not exist during my time at IBM. Must be a later
ps/2 thing. I may
have some parts related to it though.
Bill
Bill Degnan
twitter: billdeg
vintagecomputer.net
On Jun 9, 2016 10:39 PM, "William Donzelli" <wdonzelli at gmail.com>
wrote:
> So today I picked up something I had never seen before - an IBM 3511.
> This is a large tower expansion chassis for the PS/2 line. It looks
> very straightforward - but can any of you PS/2 fans comment on this?
> Was it an unsuccessful product? Low demand item?
>
> --
> Will
>
8:21 p.m.
On Jun 9, 2016, at 19:39, William Donzelli
<wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
So today I picked up something I had never seen before - an IBM 3511.
This is a large tower expansion chassis for the PS/2 line. It looks
very straightforward - but can any of you PS/2 fans comment on this?
Was it an unsuccessful product? Low demand item?
I googled up a brochure, and from the front it appears to be based on the same chassis as
my PS/2 85. I guess it was meant to be an external SCSI enclosure for machines of that
era? I believe that the 85 was intended for server duty, so a matching external drive
enclosure makes sense to me.
My machine came without its original hard drive, so I substituted a SCSI2SD. I also added
a SCSI CD-ROM drive that I harvested from one of my Sun Ultra 60 stripped chassis, then
used that to install OS/2 on it.
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/
8:35 p.m.
On Jun 9, 2016, at 8:21 PM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at
nf6x.net> wrote:
Yes, it was an external SCSI enclosure. If I call correctly (my PS/2 memory is a bit
foggy at the moment) it was roughly the same form factor has the PS/2 95 (wider than the
PS/2 60 & PS/80). The 95 also had a pluggable processor card (with all of the memory
on it) so it would be easier to upgrade CPUs/memory technologies. The 95 also has a green
LED character array (8 characters?) that information could be written to. Had fun writing
code to write stuff to it. ;-)
TTFN - Guy
On Jun 9, 2016, at 19:39, William Donzelli
<wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
So today I picked up something I had never seen before - an IBM 3511.
This is a large tower expansion chassis for the PS/2 line. It looks
very straightforward - but can any of you PS/2 fans comment on this?
Was it an unsuccessful product? Low demand item?
I googled up a brochure, and from the front it appears to be based on the same chassis as
my PS/2 85. I guess it was meant to be an external SCSI enclosure for machines of that
era? I believe that the 85 was intended for server duty, so a matching external drive
enclosure makes sense to me.
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