IBM P70

From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Wed Oct 25 16:18:00 2000

Hi Bill,

        According to the sources I've found, if a card is removed
from the machine, it won't boot except from a reference disk,
afterwhich it can be reconfigured.

        Jeff

>I've got two of these free for pickup here in Austin - when I got them
>, one worked fine but had a bad HD, and one wouldnt power up at all - I
>went to try to swap the HDs (and took out the modem card while I was at
>it); now neither unit will power up. Both have keyboards, etc.
>
>Bill
>
>On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 03:59:41PM -0400, Jason McBrien wrote:
>> 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..
>
>--
>Bill Bradford
>mrbill_at_mrbill.net
>Austin, TX

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