18 Dec
2015
18 Dec
'15
2:44 a.m.
OK Yea they were odd inside we have tower here.. think it is a 70
and a 17" or 19 inch MONSTER ibm monitor ( alas B/W).
Years and Years ago someone dumped a bunch at a thrift shop.. lots of
them!
neat here I wish I had kept more of them... I kept the tower and let
the desk tops go you see seldom any of these around here. We also
kept a LAPTOP IBM with dual floppies and a odd plasma screen all in one IBM
computer...
and we have an IBM that is like the Compaq Portable and of course a
first PC ( where do I get Charlie Chapman look-a-like to have next to
it!?)
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In a message dated 12/18/2015 12:08:25 A.M. US Mountain Standard Tim,
ggs at shiresoft.com writes:
No they weren't SCSI. Those were only through either a
"spock" or "tribble" MCA card. Those were the code names.
I have *no* idea what the "real" IBM designation was. ;-)
The desktop PS/2 machines (50, 50Z, 70, etc) were all
designed with robotic assembly in mind (that's why there
are no screws or cables in those machines). To accomplish
that the HDD was a non-standard connector.
TTFN - Guy
On 12/17/15 10:30 PM, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
did all mod 70s have SCSI drives?
Ed#
In a message dated 12/17/2015 10:54:50 P.M. US Mountain Standard Tim,
mokuba at gmail.com writes:
I never saw this post, but did end up with a 30MB. I will take another
if
available though.
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Daniel Snyder
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zoominternet.net>
wrote:
> Still looking?
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> Subject: IBM PS/2 Model 70 HARD DRIVE NEEDED
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>
> Got a hard down situation and need to re-install/recreate the BBS
system
I
--
Gary G. Sparkes Jr.
KB3HAG
> had running.
>
> HDD makes swishy noises when shaken, haven't tried stirring yet.
>
> I /guess/ a bootable MCA SCSI card would work too... ;)
>
> I had the 160MB drive, but anything above 30 would work - i guess i'll
> just
> have to use a SCSI Drive for the file storage area once i get an MCA
SCSI
card
....
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KB3HAG
18 Dec
18 Dec
11:42 a.m.
On Fri, 18 Dec 2015, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
kept a LAPTOP IBM with dual floppies and a odd plasma
screen all in one
IBM computer...
"Convertable"
Prior to release, IBM was filming one or more commercials with a Charlie
Chaplin look-a-like in a 1957 Chevy ragtop
and we have an IBM that is like the Compaq Portable
and of
"portable" / 5155
course a first PC ( where do I get Charlie Chapman
look-a-like to have
next to it!?)
Otrona!
3:03 p.m.
On 2015-12-18 12:42 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Fri, 18 Dec 2015, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
The screen on the convertable is not plasma, it is a LCD screen and
there where two versions one reflective and the other backlit. In the
PS/2 days there where suitcase size machines with plasma displays but
they only had a single diskette drive that folded out of the front, one
model is the 8573-P70. There where 386 and 486 versions of these
machines with microchannel card slots and a SCSI disk.
Paul.
kept a LAPTOP IBM with dual floppies and a odd
plasma screen all in
one IBM computer...
"Convertable"
Prior to release, IBM was filming one or more commercials with a
Charlie Chaplin look-a-like in a 1957 Chevy ragtop
and we have an IBM that is like the Compaq
Portable and of
"portable" / 5155
course a first PC ( where do I get Charlie
Chapman look-a-like to
have next to it!?)
Otrona!
3:15 p.m.
On Dec 18, 2015, at 12:03 PM, Paul Berger <phb.hfx
at gmail.com> wrote:
The screen on the convertable is not
plasma, it is a LCD screen and there where two versions one reflective and the other
backlit. In the PS/2 days there where suitcase size machines with plasma displays but
they only had a single diskette drive that folded out of the front, one model is the
8573-P70. There where 386 and 486 versions of these machines with microchannel card slots
and a SCSI disk.
Again, no. They did not ship with a SCSI disk. They used the same disks as were in the
model 50 & 70 (which were *not* SCSI).
A number of us at IBM (who worked on the SCSI cards spock & tribble) did fit the card
(usually spock because it had 512KB of cache) and an IBM 320MB SCSI drive in the P70. It
was *not* a standard (ie orderable) configuration but at the time created a wicked
machine!
TTFN - Guy
3:41 p.m.
On 2015-12-18 4:15 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
Ok I was thinking more of the P75, I remember seeing the same 320 or
400MB disks that where used in early RS/6000 systems in them. The P70,
now that I check the documentation the P70, did in fact have an ESDI
disk with the built in controller, a kind of microchannel IDE disk.
Paul.
On Dec 18,
2015, at 12:03 PM, Paul Berger <phb.hfx at gmail.com> wrote:
The screen on the convertable is not plasma, it is a LCD screen and there where two
versions one reflective and the other backlit. In the PS/2 days there where suitcase size
machines with plasma displays but they only had a single diskette drive that folded out of
the front, one model is the 8573-P70. There where 386 and 486 versions of these machines
with microchannel card slots and a SCSI disk.
Again, no. They did not ship with a SCSI disk. They used the same disks as were
in the model 50 & 70 (which were *not* SCSI).
A number of us at IBM (who worked on the SCSI cards spock & tribble) did fit the card
(usually spock because it had 512KB of cache) and an IBM 320MB SCSI drive in the P70. It
was *not* a standard (ie orderable) configuration but at the time created a wicked
machine!
TTFN - Guy
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