In a message dated Wed, 23 Aug 2000 1:12:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "Lawrence Walker" &lt;lgwalker(a)look.ca&gt; writes: << The PS/1 was definitely aimed at the consumer market. :My :2133-e11 has both 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 internal FDDs, a com :port, and a :riser with provisions for 3 add-in cards, one of which :was an :internal modem to use the Prodigy hookup in the shell :interface. :Some of the earlier ones had a modem on the motherboard :like the Kaypro did. Of course one could use joysticks :with :a Sound-Blaster card. It also came with a HD and 2x :72-pin :SIMM slots : The PS/2s continued long after the PS/1 was phased out :for :the Value-Point and later the Ambra which were also :aimed :at the lower priced consumer market. both the PS/1 and PS/2 series ended around 1994. the valuepoint was a more standard ISA bus machine announced in 1992-1993 and was designed for the corporate market like the PS/2. The valuepoints then gave way to the PC300 and PC700 series desktops of a few years ago.