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frozenfire75i

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Here is the newest member of my IBM family, It's a PS/2 Model 30 8086 20MB HDD, 760KB 3 1/2 floppy and color display. This one I am keeping, I belive it's the closest you can come to a late 80's 5150, I call it my 5150 version 2.

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Wow, that one looks CLEAN!

Very nice!

That is MCGA, isn't it? Nice to play the old Sierra games, IIRC they support that mode.
 
Very nice!

I still have the June 1987 issue of Byte magazine which published an introduction to the entire PS/2 line.
 
Really looks sharp, almost factory fresh looking!

I'm really drawn now to the old style desktop cases - tower cases are now kind of a turn-off. When tower cases first came out I thought they were cool - now I don't like them at all.

You have there a computer as computers should be :)
 
Very nice machine you've got! Yes, it looks very clean, well cared for. Is that one you got out of the school haul? If it is, must've been a teachers computer, a student PC wouldn't look THAT nice.

Vint, I totally agree that desktop cases are the way to go. Only thing I don't like is the lack of expandability, unless you get ahold of a Compaq Deskpro case, which would allow for 4 5.25 devices. Thought briefly about putting my HP guts into a vintage 386 case, but that would take away alot of front access, unless I cut some slots in the case, for USB, Firewire, and the multi-port card slots. If I had a Pentium 1 for a main PC this wouldn't be a problem, lol.

--Jack
 
Yea, it does look pretty clean. Never cared for the PS/2 series when it was new, but they have grown on me quite a bit since 2000 or so. The desktops would be real nice for old games if they had some inexpensive MCA sound cards. If I wasn't worried that my systems are going to cave in on me someday and crush me I would look for a PS/2 era monitor for my 5 PS/2 systems (65sx, 2x80, 60, 95 hey I like towers).

Time to hit the lottery and build that 5000 SQFT house I never wanted untill I started collecting computers.
 
Yes, the PS/2 series is one of few exceptions I make in what I said previously. The tower PS/2 is actually very stunning, and I'd love to come across one. A few years ago there were a crapload of towers and desktops of the PS/2 variety, and I passed them up thinking I'll find them cheaper in a few months. Now they hardly ever show up, and when the towers do (or the AIOs) they are ridiculously expensive.

On the bright side, I have one PS/2 and two color monitors.

--Jack
 
Lovely condition. I must admit to have being a PS/2 MCA snob after getting my first PS/2 8580 and never grabbed any ISA models later which I now regret. Sent me scuttling to consult my 3rd Edition Mueller.(I also have Eds. 5,7,8. but they don't contain the detailed specs on the PS/2).

I had a PS/1 2133 at that time and the 80 blew me away, and I became an IBM freak. I acquired many MCA PS/2s for a perod as well as IBM PC, PCjr, XT, AT, PS/1 2011 and 2021, and Ambra models. While I knew the 80 had kicked off MCA and VGA I had thought the 2011 and 2021 had preceded the PS/2s for some reason. Mueller corrected me that the 2011 and 2021 came out respectively in 90 and 91. The 25, 30, 30/286, 8550, 8560, and 8580 all came out in 87. The 80 being of these the only 32 bit model. The 8570 MCA/32 came out the next year. IBM numercal sequences still tend to baffle me. #2 should follow #1 logically,
n'est-ce pas ?

Lawrence
 
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