Goodwill Computerworks Museum is open - *

From: Charles P. Hobbs <transit_at_lerctr.org>
Date: Sun Aug 20 21:14:08 2000

On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Sellam Ismail wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Bill Dawson wrote:
>
> > Early 128K IBM PS/1 with 5.25" floppy drive and PS/1 power cube, PS1
> > keyboard (not chicklets), separate PS/1 color monitor, 2 PS/1 joysticks,
> > and a large box of IBM software (games and educational) in the IBM
>
> I always wondered what era the IBM PS/1 is from? I've seen PS/1 machines
> but they look 90s. And I never heard of them before the PS/2, although it
> would seem logical that the PS/1 came first. What's the deal?

PS/1 came out a bit after the PS/2, if I recall correctly. It was
a "cut-down" version of the PS/2 for home use. It lacked some things
that the PS/2 had, but I forget what. (Shades of the PCjr)
Received on Sun Aug 20 2000 - 21:14:08 BST