That's a fun machine! I Belive the square doohickey in the back is either
for an external monitor, it plugs into another converter thingy to get it to
standard VGA. It's got an ESDI hard drive, I belive, and has two MCA
expansion slots. You'll have to scrounge for a keyboard, I don't think it's
a standard PS/2 connector. The red gas-plasma display is supercool, it has
that wargames feel going on..
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Hellige" <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 3:40 PM
Subject: IBM P70
> I found a rather interesting machine today at a local thrift
> store. It is an IBM PS/2 Model P70. Normally I don't pick up IBM
> PC's or clones, but this has the following:
>
> - luggable, roughly the size of a large breifcase
> - 80386 running at 20mhz
> - red gas-plasma VGA display
> - one 16-bit MCA and one 32-bit MCA expansion slot
> - 120meg IBM ESDI hard disk
> - 4meg RAM
> - parallel, serial, PS/2 mouse, VGA, and unknown HDI-30
> connector on the rear.
>
> Unfortunately, it lacks it's keyboard, which isn't connected
> by way of the standard PS/2 connector. It won't boot past the memory
> test due to the lack of keyboard and it gives me POST error codes of
> 301, 162 and 163 on the screen, as well as beeps twice. Does anyone
> know what the square 30pin connector on the rear panel is? It
> reminds me of the HDI-30 SCSI connector found on some Powerbooks.
>
> I picked it up because I thought a portable Microchannel
> machine with a gas-plasma VGA screen was pretty interesting. Not to
> mention it's the only MCA machine I have.
>
> Jeff
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Received on Wed Oct 25 2000 - 14:59:41 BST