Looking to avoid problems, with Windows update? Latest Linux kernel?
10 CLR
I used to use this exact system at work. With DOS, 640K really was enough for anybody. :)
Remember floppies and stiffies?
That was such bleeding edge tech at the time. Screaming awesome stuff.
The Model 30 was a piece of JUNK. IBM was supposed to move the entire lineup from the Model 50 on up to use wide channel Micro Channel Architecture (MCA). The Model 30 used an old CPU and was obsolete (640x480 VGA notwithstanding) and still cost a LOT more than better competition from Compaq, PC’s Limited, Gateway, Everex and many others.
I worked on a lot of Model 50s and Model 80s (boat anchors). The MCA configuration boot diskettes kept me busy as an IT serviceman for some time.
That MicroChannel Bus will be AWESOME!........................
How can you beat that?
Tech Nostalgia Ping!
As a yute, I was deprived because my parents would not buy an IBM 360 for my bedroom so I could get my homework done faster
Way back in the early 80’s I worked as an operator on a NCR Criterion mainframe while in college. Believe it or not, it had 512k of main memory. The CDC (Control Data Corp) removable disk packs were 300MB capacity.
The CPU wasn’t multiprocessing, it was multi tasking.
No one will ever need more than 640k memory, you are set for life
So that we may see what is being discussed: IBM PS/2 Model 30!
FYI: For those not in the know, that is a green-phosphor Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) Monitor there, ah such memories!
That was a looooooong time ago.
REAL PROGRAMMERS don’t comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
— Unknown
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
— Wernher von Braun
Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.
— Dick Brandon
There are 10 types of people. Those that understand binary and those that do not.
— Ray Roton
more at:
http://www.thecorememory.com/html/selected_quotes.html
Hold on for OS/2 Warp!
Those were the days.
I ‘leapfrogged’ my dad & brother in 87 with the futuristic 12mhz machine and a 20meg HD...no more floppies for this kid!
Upgraded every 18 months until 1999....prepped a ‘Y2K’ machine that lasted for years after.
Computers are boring now...
I still have one with the original monochrome monitor sitting on a shelf in my garage. I thought that someday it may be worth something. Anyone have any idea about it’s worth?
Adjusted for inflation...
$1,695 (1989) = $3,600 (2020)