Subj : Re: First Computer
To   : kirkspragg
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sun Sep 15 2024 08:16:00

-=> kirkspragg wrote to Garon <=-

 ki> A f u IBM for making it so hard to upgrade the PS/1 and PS/2 line of
 ki> machines.

PS/2s were easy to upgrade -- when you could find the kit to do so!

Microchannel was amazing back in the day for plug-and-play, and the
Case cover came off with a quarter. All of the drive sleds snapped in,
they had little rubber connectors for the drives, and the entire thing
snapped together. Cost an arm and a leg, though.

I managed a handful of them back in the '90s. A Model 80 (386/25) I had
running OS/2 2.0 is probably one of my favorite work PCs ever.


 
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