Subj : IBM PS/2 Model 25 questions
To   : andrew clarke
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Sat Feb 13 2016 09:35:38

  Re: IBM PS/2 Model 25 questions
  By: andrew clarke to Kurt Weiske on Sat Feb 13 2016 09:07 pm

 KW>> That could be a challenge. I don't think the 25 had a microchannel
 KW>> slot.

 AC> Well maybe. Wikipedia says the 80286 Model 25s had ISA (not MCA) slots but
 AC> the 8088 Model 25s had no expansion slots at all.

That's RIGHT! I remember them including a ISA slot causing a stink; IBM didn't
want it to seem like they'd admitted than MCA wasn't all it was made out to
be.

I worked a job back then that was all IBM. I had a Model 80 - the tower with a
386, 80 megabyte ESDI drive, 8 megabytes of RAM, and OS/2 1.3. I was amazed at
what OS/2 could do back then -- Word, Excel, connectivity to IBM AS/400s,
Netware, and LAN Manager networks, and I had a comm program that could handle
2400 baud without a hitch with everything else running.

I still have the Model M keyboard from that system.   :)
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