[mdlug] Found a PS1 for sale and it's not a console

David Lee Lambert davidl at lmert.com
Sun Oct 12 08:28:17 EDT 2014


I owned a PS/1, still have a stack of about 30 floppies that could have 
been used to reinstall the OS (Windows 3.1; I may have installed Windows 
for Workgroups and/or Windows 95 on it later). Originally had a 5¼" 
floppy drive and a 3½" floppy drive, one combined device in a 5¼" drive 
bay. The CPU was a 486.

I may have tried to install Linux at some point, I also used it as a 
Samba client, an SSHv1 client, a Telnet client, and running some free 
but not open-source X Windows server with a Linux server I owned at the 
same time.

Eventually I submitted the case and motherboard to electronics recycling 
after the motherboard exhibited semiregular bus errors and the 
hard-drive had a lot of bad sectors.  I pulled out the 16-bit modem and 
16-bit network card, but didn't have any othr motherboards that would 
take them.

The monitor was SVGA, but that burned out around 2006 or 2008. It didn't 
support very high resolution, either.

On 10/11/2014 08:47 PM, Jeff Hanson wrote:
> Rare item.  The first IBM PC I ever used was PS/2 model 30.
> http://nmi.craigslist.org/sys/4709066251.html
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