[comp.sys.ibm.pc] New IBM PS/2-30

spolsky-avram@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) (09/23/88)

In article <9182@cup.portal.com> Howard_Reed_Johnson@cup.portal.com writes:
| In a recent article, mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus) states:
| |  While I'm on the subject of rumors, has anyone heard that IBM is planning
| |  to release a new PS/2 Model 35 that goes back to the old AT bus?  Maybe
| |  IBM has decided to abandon there own creation?
| 
| My understanding is that the Model 35 corrects a deficiency in
| the Model 30 -- the 8086 in the Model 30 is replaced by an 80286 in
| the Model 35. 

Right! its still called the model 30 but it has a '286 and three AT
slots. It comes in a dual 720K 3.5" floppy version, and a 20Meg hard
disk version.

Also I think they scrapped MCGA and moved up to VGA.

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psrc@poseidon.UUCP (Paul S. R. Chisholm) (09/27/88)

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In article <38600@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>, spolsky-avram@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) writes:
> Right! It's still called the model 30 but it has a '286 and three AT
> slots. It comes in a dual 720K 3.5" floppy version, and a 20Meg hard
> disk version.

Well, no; when they "scrapped MCGA and moved up to VGA", they also went
to 1.4M floppy disks.  (OS/2 disks come in 1.2M format for 5.25", and
1.4M format for 3.5" disks.)  Yes, it comes in a two floppy model.
 
> Joel Spolsky             bitnet: spolsky@yalecs     uucp: ...!yale!spolsky
> Yale University          arpa:   spolsky@yale.edu   voicenet: 203-436-1483

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