Speaking of PS/2s...

From: Boatman on the River of Suck <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Wed Dec 19 07:00:36 2001

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Tothwolf wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Doc wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > That requires an expansion board, right? The little info I can find
> > suggests that 3 2M SIMMs is max, onboard.
>
> I thought I was the only PS/2 fan here :P

I was one of the developers who worked on Linux/MCA.

> Depending on the model of your board, you could have a max of 6mb or 8mb.
> To add more memory, you would need an expansion board. One of the better
> boards I that I used to use in model 60 machines was made by Kingston and
> took up to 4 72pin simms.

I believe the BXX series could do 16 MB on the board. Plus the 72-pin
SIMMs weren't your standard plain-vanilla ones. They had PS/2 Presence
Detect (PPD) feature on them.

> One of the best non IBM references I ever found for the PS/2 line is a
> book called "Upgrading and Repairing PCs", written by Scott Mueller, and
> published by QUE. The last edition that had the PS/2 info in it was the
> 4th edition. I never owned a hardcopy of the 4th edition, but I have an
> electronic version of it that came on cdrom with the 10th edition. I
> completely wore out my 2nd and 3rd editions of the book. (If anyone has a
> 4th edition in good shape that they don't want, I'd be more than willing
> to pay shipping.)

I have a better source. I have the internal IBM technical manuals and
schematics for every PS/2 ever made, including rare ones like the N51SX,
and the 43SL.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Wed Dec 19 2001 - 07:00:36 GMT