Speaking of PS/2s...

From: Boatman on the River of Suck <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Wed Dec 19 06:55:08 2001

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com wrote:

> I have a 5870-121 that I snarked recently, with 4 megs of RAM and a
> 120M ESDI drive. I'm wondering what I want to put on it as OS. I have
> plenty of Linux/NetBSD critters. I was thinking OS/2, but I threw v3.0
> Warp on Saturday night, but it's slow as dirt with 4 megs. Oh, yeah. It
> had the original reference disk in the floppy drive. I think that's
> really why I bought it.
> I also have a Model 25 386dx/16 which is one of my favorites. It had
> a token-ring ISA adapter, as well as an 8-bit ethernet adapter I can't
> ID, no hard-drive, and was set up to netboot. I finally found the J-leg
> 387 for it, stuck in a 500m drive with EZ-drive, and run PC-DOS &
> Lemmings, mostly. >>
>
> The 8570 you have is not bad, but way too small and not really easy as far as
> drive expansion goes. put the max amount of 16meg memory in it and os2 will
> thank you. mod80 is much better for expansion. that 386 8525 is neat, but not
> really rare. I wouldnt consider any PS/2 rare except for maybe the PS/2 E
> which I would just call uncommon.

Hey SUPRDAVE, 16 MB is nowhere near the max for that machine. I have 48
megs in my 8570.

Peace... Sridahr
Received on Wed Dec 19 2001 - 06:55:08 GMT