IBM PS/2 Model 70 HARD DRIVE NEEDED

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Fri Dec 18 18:18:03 CST 2015


ok we  have this
 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,
 
we also  have  the  dual disc laptop   1st  thing  IBM made  with lcd
 
then we also have a  one  that is like a suitcase compaq  portable  that 
made compaq famous 
 
ok thinks  for  it all being non scsi!
 
Ed#   _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)  
 
 
In a message dated 12/18/2015 1:15:22 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
ggs at shiresoft.com writes:


>  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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