IBM PS/2 Model 70 HARD DRIVE NEEDED

[Guy Sotomayor]

> On Dec 18, 2015, at 12:03 PM, Paul Berger <phb.hfx at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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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