IBM PS/2 Model 25

From: Lawrence Walker <lgwalker_at_mts.net>
Date: Tue Jan 14 00:00:01 2003

 I'm a heavy IBM collector, altho mainly MCA machines. I
have several PCs, XTs, ATs, PCjrs, 2011, 2021, 2023,
and 2033s and IBM monitors and keyboards. To me the
model 25s have always been one of IBM failures, unlike
the 30 and 286 30s, and I have never gone out of my way
to acquire one. Everything I have read about them has
been trouble and too little too late. What is this upsurge
of interest with them ? Simply because they were an all-
in one machine ? Then I would posit the 20xx line which
like some Amstrads had electronics which wouldn't work
unless you had the whole unit. And of course the many
other all-in-ones like the PET or H-89 or many others.
It was a design that had long been dead.

Lawrence



On 13 Jan 2003, , Jeffrey H. Ingber wrote:

> I owned a model 25 a number of years ago. This one actually
> had a 30MB HDD that used a seperate controller. I also had
> an 8-slot ISA expansion box from a comapny called Pacific
> Coast Horizons (PCH, I think that was the name of the
> outfit). Also had an NEC CDR-72 single speed CD-ROM (SCSI)
> and an MPU-401/MT-32 setup.
>
> Jeff
>
>
> On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 16:38, Daniel Hicks wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, I am quite familiar with them. In my high school
> > I was in charging of maintaining the ten that we had in a
> > small computer lab. If I recall, they had 20-MB hard
> > drives and a single 720-k floppy drive. we used DOS and
> > WordPerfect 5.1 on them. The school gave them all to me
> > after I graduated, and like a fool I trashed them (along
> > with 10 model 80's, and 10 old Zenith machines) Now
> > nostalgia is setting in and I would like to get my hands
> > on one again.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John Allain" <allain_at_panix.com>
> > To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> > Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 4:23 PM
> > Subject: Re: IBM PS/2 Model 25
> >
> >
> > > > I am looking for a good, cheap PS/2 Model 25 (sx I
> > > > think). ... Again, looking for cheap.
> > >
> > > Be prepared. Typically 25's are 8086 with no hard
> > > drive. The options you want probably existed but would
> > > make the model considerably rarer.
> > >
> > > John A.
> > >
>
>


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