*updating* 8088's

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Thu Nov 22 01:27:35 CST 2007


Ethan Dicks wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:55:54AM -0600, Doc Shipley wrote:
>>   So, here's the question I forgot to ask - how many PS/2 models had 
>> ISA slots?  That 25SX did, but that's the only one I've seen.
> 
> My Model 30 did.  When we outgrew the internal IDE-ish drive (it had a
> wide edge connector on the drive, to a 40+ pin connector on the planar),
> we didn't want to pay what IBM wanted for a larger drive, so we went
> with a 3.5" RLL of some flavor, with an ISA controller (DTC, perhaps?)

Any PS/2 with a model number lower than 50 had ISA.  25, 30, 35, 40, 
L40SX (sort of) and the PS/2 E (or model 33, I suppose).  Probably one 
or two I missed.

Peace...  Sridhar


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