Aeroraptor
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Hello all!
I've been looking for a place to sell my p70 for quite some time, then I stumbled across this place and though someone here might be interested, even though a p70 is a bit newer than this forum seems to cover.
Anyway, the machine is an IBM PS/2 p70 luggable, model 8573-121, manufacture date is 1990-09. It's got a 20MHz 386, no FPU, but there is a socket for one. 8MB RAM covered in four 2MB 72pin sticks, the max for planar memory. As for drives it has a 120MB internal hard drive, bus attached, makes no ominous clicking or grinding noises so I'm sure it's fine, and a high-density floppy drive, which works great. Ports wise it has PS/2, serial (25pin) parallel, some sort of high-density, maybe 20 pins? Connector used for an external floppy drive, and VGA. It has two vertical MCA slots, one above the other, on the back, both are currently empty, but there are loads of MCA cards this thing can use, network, processor upgrade, sound, RAM upgrade, etc . It has a brand new Duracell clock battery, which is actually the type that many cameras use these days, so not only does it last a very, very long time, they’re also cheap and easy to replace. To get to the innards, all you have to do is lay it on its front, remove three sprint loaded coin screws, and lift it off, though there isn’t a whole lot you can do back there. The screen is a full VGA res (640x480) orange gas plasma. There are no defects such as stray lines, scratches, or cracks on the screen. It displays 16 levels of gray under the orange, it tilts forward for use, and you can adjust the viewing angle. The keyboard is full size, and flips down from the front, and is also detachable, connected via a cable to the main system. It is very similar is feel to an IBM Model M keyboard.
On the hard drive, consuming about 37MB of space, is a full copy of OS/2 2.1, including DOS and Windows3.1, which can actually be run inside OS/2, in a window or full screen, making this a computer that more or less runs three operating systems, except two are within OS/2. If you don’t want to run OS/2, or don’t like it, you can run DOS6.22 and Windows3.1 on here with no problems. It’s all very generic hardware so you don’t even need special drives or anything. I have the same copy of OS/2, on original floppies (all 20 of them) in box, with original manuals (install and users guide) as well as all the original promotional pamphlets and the like. The box itself has a few dings on it, but it’s fine overall. I also have a copy of the original system setup floppy, basically the BIOS, just on a floppy, but it also allows you to run tests on the computer. (I have run the test several times, everything checks out ok). The only ‘problem’ this computer has that I am aware of is that sometimes when you go to boot it up, it takes a few minutes for it to come up. If you don’t want to wait, you can just power it on and off a few times, and it will come right up.
Here are a bunch of pictures I took of the machine. They’re not the best ever, but you should be able to get the idea from them: http://picasaweb.google.com/john8520/IBMPS2P70.
You may note that there are no pictures of the screen there, this is because that screen is *really* hard to get a picture of without a bad reflection, so all the ones I took were just washed out. Condition-wise, this machine is very nice. There are some scratches and dings on the bottom, but they are to be expected, due to the orientation of it.
As for price, I don’t really have a clue, most people have recommended around $100-120 to me, so I think I’ll just go with that, unless it seems totally absurdly high.
Feel free to email me for more information or more detailed pictures.
EDIT - my email would be john8520@gmail.com
John Miller
Washington, NC
27889-5004
PS- sorry if this post is way too long, I’m just trying to be as descriptive as possible…
I've been looking for a place to sell my p70 for quite some time, then I stumbled across this place and though someone here might be interested, even though a p70 is a bit newer than this forum seems to cover.
Anyway, the machine is an IBM PS/2 p70 luggable, model 8573-121, manufacture date is 1990-09. It's got a 20MHz 386, no FPU, but there is a socket for one. 8MB RAM covered in four 2MB 72pin sticks, the max for planar memory. As for drives it has a 120MB internal hard drive, bus attached, makes no ominous clicking or grinding noises so I'm sure it's fine, and a high-density floppy drive, which works great. Ports wise it has PS/2, serial (25pin) parallel, some sort of high-density, maybe 20 pins? Connector used for an external floppy drive, and VGA. It has two vertical MCA slots, one above the other, on the back, both are currently empty, but there are loads of MCA cards this thing can use, network, processor upgrade, sound, RAM upgrade, etc . It has a brand new Duracell clock battery, which is actually the type that many cameras use these days, so not only does it last a very, very long time, they’re also cheap and easy to replace. To get to the innards, all you have to do is lay it on its front, remove three sprint loaded coin screws, and lift it off, though there isn’t a whole lot you can do back there. The screen is a full VGA res (640x480) orange gas plasma. There are no defects such as stray lines, scratches, or cracks on the screen. It displays 16 levels of gray under the orange, it tilts forward for use, and you can adjust the viewing angle. The keyboard is full size, and flips down from the front, and is also detachable, connected via a cable to the main system. It is very similar is feel to an IBM Model M keyboard.
On the hard drive, consuming about 37MB of space, is a full copy of OS/2 2.1, including DOS and Windows3.1, which can actually be run inside OS/2, in a window or full screen, making this a computer that more or less runs three operating systems, except two are within OS/2. If you don’t want to run OS/2, or don’t like it, you can run DOS6.22 and Windows3.1 on here with no problems. It’s all very generic hardware so you don’t even need special drives or anything. I have the same copy of OS/2, on original floppies (all 20 of them) in box, with original manuals (install and users guide) as well as all the original promotional pamphlets and the like. The box itself has a few dings on it, but it’s fine overall. I also have a copy of the original system setup floppy, basically the BIOS, just on a floppy, but it also allows you to run tests on the computer. (I have run the test several times, everything checks out ok). The only ‘problem’ this computer has that I am aware of is that sometimes when you go to boot it up, it takes a few minutes for it to come up. If you don’t want to wait, you can just power it on and off a few times, and it will come right up.
Here are a bunch of pictures I took of the machine. They’re not the best ever, but you should be able to get the idea from them: http://picasaweb.google.com/john8520/IBMPS2P70.
You may note that there are no pictures of the screen there, this is because that screen is *really* hard to get a picture of without a bad reflection, so all the ones I took were just washed out. Condition-wise, this machine is very nice. There are some scratches and dings on the bottom, but they are to be expected, due to the orientation of it.
As for price, I don’t really have a clue, most people have recommended around $100-120 to me, so I think I’ll just go with that, unless it seems totally absurdly high.
Feel free to email me for more information or more detailed pictures.
EDIT - my email would be john8520@gmail.com
John Miller
Washington, NC
27889-5004
PS- sorry if this post is way too long, I’m just trying to be as descriptive as possible…