IBM PS/2 Model 70 HARD DRIVE NEEDED

[Paul Berger]

On 2015-12-18 4:15 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
>> 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).
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> 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!
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> TTFN - Guy
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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.