oddball find PS/2-50

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Sat Mar 21 10:20:02 1998

Allison J Parent wrote:

> Questions, how fast were the 286s?

As I recall, they were 8 MHz machines.

> The hard disk is rather strange with what looks like a 50pin edge
> connector. Obviously some of the extra connections over normal are
> power. is the drive MFM, IDE or what?

The IBM HDs I have like you describe are ESDI drives. While I don't have
the numbers available, the ones I have are 60 MB.

> What other oddities about these?

You probably already know the machines are worthless if the setup gets
changed/corrupted and the reference disk is not available to correct the
situation.
Received on Sat Mar 21 1998 - 10:20:02 GMT

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