IBM P70

From: Bill Pechter <pechter_at_pechter.dyndns.org>
Date: Wed Oct 25 20:13:23 2000

> >
> >Its to plug in an external floppy drive such as the 4869. I found the cable
> >for it on ebay. The P75 looks the same, but a bit thicker and has SCSI. I
> >have both models.
>
> What OS are you running on each of them? I'm thinking that
> this could make an interesting portable LINUX workstation and it
> would appear that most of the MCA hardware such as SCSI and NIC cards
> are supported under it.
>
> Jeff
> --
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>
>

Well, I ran Linux on the model 80 and it was ok. The SCSI version was a
bit better than the ESDI -- but I believe it was the drive performance
and 4mb more memory that made it seem to run much better.

Bill

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