Dates (again)

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed Oct 30 09:49:00 2002

--- vance_at_neurotica.com wrote:
>
> There was also the weird little PS/2e.

Hey! They aren't wierd - they are an ISA machine (one slot) with
built-in video, a 2.5" hard disk, laptop-floppy and a max of 16MB
of RAM. IBM shipped them in three flavors based on what they stuffed
into the lone ISA slot - Ethernet, TokenRing and PCMCIA.

I have a couple of them. I put Linux (RedHat 5.2) on an 800MB disk
and stuck 4 3Com 3C589s in it as a router for several low-volume
DMZs (test LAN for (previous) work to pseudo-simulate the production
network environment for product development).

Worked fine, presuming your definition of fine includes sub-33MHz
486-grade processors and a textual OS. :-)

I'd love to get the LCD screen for it, but that costs several times
what the CPU does. ISTR mine were $15 or so at the Uni Surplus two
years ago (minus the PCMCIA cards which I gathered from a couple of
sources - thanks again, Bob!).

-ethan


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Received on Wed Oct 30 2002 - 09:49:00 GMT

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