Rebuilding IBM's Most Obnoxious PC - PS/2 Model 70 Type 1

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  @Really........ · 5 months ago

  The cool thing about standards in the 80's and 90's is that there was so many to choose from.

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• VW

  @vwestlife · 5 months ago

  To be fair:<br>1. The PS/2 line was for business users, most of whom had service contracts, so to make service quicker and easier, the chassis was designed to be completely toolless -- the first computer to do so, AFAIK.<br>2. Having an easily replaceable battery kept safely out of harm&apos;s way is a godsend compared to having a leak-prone battery soldered directly to the motherboard.<br>3. 3½&quot; floppy drives were still new and there was no settled industry standard for them yet. Other OEMs used what looked like a normal ribbon cable but supplied power through it. IDE hard drives didn&apos;t exist yet, either.<br>4. The MCA bus being 32-bit, plug-and-play, and auto-configuring was years ahead of its time, and sure beat configuring jumpers and DIP switches and manually resolving IRQ conflicts. But if you didn&apos;t like it, all PS/2 models below 50 still used the ISA bus.

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• NR

  @nrdesign1991 · 5 months ago

  That accordion floppy box! That was brilliant

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• DI

  @dividedbyzero96 · 5 months ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Py5VzB54s&amp;t=697">11:37</a> For those curious, the 2M x 36 on the label is referring to the size of the individual SRAM cells in megabits, so its 2 Mbit cells x 36 = 72 Mbit or 9MB total, 8MB of actual capacity plus 1MB for parity

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• ZS

  @zsteinkamp · 5 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Py5VzB54s&amp;t=570">9:30</a> &quot;Welcome to our nightmare, computer.&quot; lol killed me

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• MI

  @MikeGervasi · 4 months ago

  YES...I can FEEL your anger... &nbsp; We LIVED through it all. Now..ASSIGN THOSE IRQs!!!!!

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• JA

  @Jaabaa-1 · 5 months ago

  Volume name = PLEASEWORK 🤣 👍

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• DE

  @derekchristenson5711 · 4 months ago

  When you set the date at 3-27-2026 and declared &quot;Welcome to OUR nightmare, computer!&quot;, I felt that in my soul. &nbsp;And laughed, because you gotta laugh or you&apos;ll cry, right? &nbsp;LOL

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• TH

  @TheBilgepumper · 5 months ago

  The 80s and 90s were so weird. Even cheap and relatively bad generic clones were always so much easier to repair and upgrade than IBMs. It was a relief when it became normal to just call compatibles &quot;PCs&quot; without referring to IBM anymore.

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• ST

  @stepheneickhoff4953 · 5 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Py5VzB54s&amp;t=567">9:27</a> As a guy who was part of his company&apos;s Y2K team in the late 90s, I tensed up a bit here...

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• JF

  @jfwfreo · 5 months ago

  Wow, THE mouse where the term &quot;PS/2 mouse&quot; came from.

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• BA

  @balthxzar · 5 months ago

  I audibly gasped at that floppy disk tray you had, it&apos;s so beautiful

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