Den Wed, 9 Jan 2019 10:23:28 +0100 skrev silverdr@wfmh.org.pl: > > That, or PS/2 just is second-system syndrome. > > There must be something wrong with me because I always felt that PS/2 > was a PC done if not "right" then at least far better than the > original PC. Adjusted for time period of course. A problem is that adapters or information on how to make adapters between the PS/2 stuff and older/standard stuff were hard to come by if they even did exist. They were a bit too early and unfortunately the stuff that were good didn't really settle. For example the PS/2 model 25 and 30 were kind of just like the older XT and AT (those with the /286 suffix) machines, but the connector and mounting hardware for the floppy drives were different and their IDE hard drive were of a standard that no-one else used. Everything became a huge vendor lock-in. (I don't know if you could add a standard ISA hard disk controller board to those machines - after all the model 25 and 30 had ISA slots. I assume that they might had been able to boot from a hard disk card with it's own bios but not boot from an IDE or WD 1003 ("AT style") card. -- (\_/) Copy the bunny to your mails to help (O.o) him achieve world domination. (> <) Come join the dark side. /_|_\ We have cookies.Received on 2019-01-10 21:01:23
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