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Supporter Exclusive: The IBM PS/2 Model 30 286 Lumbers To Life (Patreon)

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2023-01-16 14:00:04
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I'll be posting this short on YouTube showing sometime this weekend showing my first attempt at powering on this Model 30 286: https://youtube.com/shorts/vsgO79qTVLg

What I didn't realize was the system actually is capable of booting off it's original ESDI HDD despite all those errors! Here's a full clip of it booting into IBM DOS 5.0

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Anonymous

I have a model 70 that I've been trying to resurrect. It came without a hard drive which was the first hurdle, because it's a model with only the MCA bus. Had to find a specialized card that only one person makes (shoutout Mark Malley at zzxio.com) to give IDE support. Mine has a 386 with 4mb of ram and 8mb with the expansion card I bought. These things are a real pain to deal with, especially the ones with only MCA busses and no ISA and additionally because of the ESDI drives which are impossible to find. I can't help but be charmed by them though and I've messed with it more than I thought I would.

Matthew Drobnak

We had these when I Was in 4th grade in elementary school, with 1MB of RAM, running Windows 3.0. The art room had one with 2 or 4 MB and a giant HP PaintJet XL. I remember printing out one of the wallpaper files...