Speaking of PS/2s...

From: Allison <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Wed Dec 19 07:55:06 2001

Linux MCA would ahve appeal but likely wont happen for a 286 boxen

Allison

-----Original Message-----
From: Boatman on the River of Suck <vance_at_ikickass.org>
To: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Cc: Classic Computers <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 8:18 AM
Subject: Re: Speaking of PS/2s...


>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
>
>
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