LGR - Restoring a 1987 IBM PS/2 Model 30
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Andrew
Why not look for a Plus Development Hard Card? Pretty sure they're available (somewhere) and could have been original to the machine if it had been ordered with two floppy drives since this system has the ISA expansion slots. Somewhat surprised you didn't find a Token Ring card in that system. BTW, I'm really enjoying your videos and the care you put into working on these old systems is fantastic. Quite the blast from the past. BTW, it's also possible that the motherboard for this system was assembled under contract for IBM by Texas Instruments in a plant in Eastern Tennessee.
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Why not look for a Plus Development Hard Card? Pretty sure they're available (somewhere) and could have been original to the machine if it had been ordered with two floppy drives since this system has the ISA expansion slots. Somewhat surprised you didn't find a Token Ring card in that system. BTW, I'm really enjoying your videos and the care you put into working on these old systems is fantastic. Quite the blast from the past. BTW, it's also possible that the motherboard for this system was assembled under contract for IBM by Texas Instruments in a plant in Eastern Tennessee.
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LGR
To everyone sending me links to hard disk cables they think will work on this machine:
as mentioned near the end of the video, there is _only one_ cable that works with this configuration on this particular variant of the Model 30. That would be IBM PN: 61X8903. Even then I still don't have the correct hard drive for this machine so I wouldn't be able to use the thing anyway, so I'm temporarily just using an XT-CF-Lite card instead.
Also, yes I am aware that blowing air into a fan can cause problems. TOO BAD, HAD FUN, _NO REGRETS_: P
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To everyone sending me links to hard disk cables they think will work on this machine:
as mentioned near the end of the video, there is _only one_ cable that works with this configuration on this particular variant of the Model 30. That would be IBM PN: 61X8903. Even then I still don't have the correct hard drive for this machine so I wouldn't be able to use the thing anyway, so I'm temporarily just using an XT-CF-Lite card instead.
Also, yes I am aware that blowing air into a fan can cause problems. TOO BAD, HAD FUN, _NO REGRETS_: P
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Frank
Those old alps floppy drives had serious problems. I worked on one machine where a floppy formatted on it would not read in other machines. So I formatted it on another machine and it worked on all the other PCs. But when I put the floppy back in the PS/2 the original files were still readable! So both file systems existed on the same floppy. It was like the PS/2 had written between the tracks. I got double the storage on that floppy -
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Those old alps floppy drives had serious problems. I worked on one machine where a floppy formatted on it would not read in other machines. So I formatted it on another machine and it worked on all the other PCs. But when I put the floppy back in the PS/2 the original files were still readable! So both file systems existed on the same floppy. It was like the PS/2 had written between the tracks. I got double the storage on that floppy -
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VHFGamer
You know. part of me wonders if that power switch was disconnected on purpose. If this computer really was set up to emulate an IBM terminal, it might be that whatever corporation who owned it wouldn't want people turning it on and off. So maybe they had the techs pop those levers off and leave them all in the -on- position, and control their power from a main breaker.
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You know. part of me wonders if that power switch was disconnected on purpose. If this computer really was set up to emulate an IBM terminal, it might be that whatever corporation who owned it wouldn't want people turning it on and off. So maybe they had the techs pop those levers off and leave them all in the -on- position, and control their power from a main breaker.
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Jersey
When I worked for IBM I had a PC/AT with a 3278 emulator card. Using a series of keystrokes you could switch from PC mode to green screen mainframe access and back.
I had a PS2/30 286 with windows for home use. I ordered the PC and then broke my leg. I spent my recovery playing King-s Quest IV. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane.
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When I worked for IBM I had a PC/AT with a 3278 emulator card. Using a series of keystrokes you could switch from PC mode to green screen mainframe access and back.
I had a PS2/30 286 with windows for home use. I ordered the PC and then broke my leg. I spent my recovery playing King-s Quest IV. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane.
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Dominick
The only time I've ever dealt with a permanent marker stain like 8: 01- 8: 48 was a small dot ot the stuff on the back of an SNES cartridge. Had to resort to Goof-Off (Which is -way- stronger than Goo-Gone, but that ended up melting the plastic's surface, and thus the texture along with it. It was pretty small, but still unrelenting.
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The only time I've ever dealt with a permanent marker stain like 8: 01- 8: 48 was a small dot ot the stuff on the back of an SNES cartridge. Had to resort to Goof-Off (Which is -way- stronger than Goo-Gone, but that ended up melting the plastic's surface, and thus the texture along with it. It was pretty small, but still unrelenting.
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Nick
I have a fully stock PS/2 Model 30, 8530-021. The HDD is model WDI-325Q, part number 72X7568. Cable is 68X2828, I think -- it's printed on to the cable, or rather on the ridges of the cable conductors, so it's a little hard to distinguish rounded numbers from each other. This did land some Google results, though, so I think it's right.
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I have a fully stock PS/2 Model 30, 8530-021. The HDD is model WDI-325Q, part number 72X7568. Cable is 68X2828, I think -- it's printed on to the cable, or rather on the ridges of the cable conductors, so it's a little hard to distinguish rounded numbers from each other. This did land some Google results, though, so I think it's right.
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Mark
Has Clint ever said how many projects/videos he has in production at any one time. Even his thrifting videos can take several weeks, this one would have taken a couple of months. It-s easy to see why he-s so successful, puts in the effort, has encyclopaedic knowledge and comes across as the guy you want your daughter to bring home.
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Has Clint ever said how many projects/videos he has in production at any one time. Even his thrifting videos can take several weeks, this one would have taken a couple of months. It-s easy to see why he-s so successful, puts in the effort, has encyclopaedic knowledge and comes across as the guy you want your daughter to bring home.
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fanjoy
Yes the old IBM PS/2. brings back not-so-fond memories as they used these for our keyboarding class. along with a token ring network I believe. All I remember is having to wait a while between tasks as it would take forever for the computers to load things across the network (as there were 30 machines in the particular network.
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Yes the old IBM PS/2. brings back not-so-fond memories as they used these for our keyboarding class. along with a token ring network I believe. All I remember is having to wait a while between tasks as it would take forever for the computers to load things across the network (as there were 30 machines in the particular network.
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Warren
Gosh, I remember those boxes. We use to blow the motherboards so we could replace them with a 3rd gen OEM board that was twice as fast with color on the motherboard, and 128gig of memory. Made a lot of uses very happy. Had to do that since we could not buy new systems, but only repair them. Capital dollars vs. Expense.
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Gosh, I remember those boxes. We use to blow the motherboards so we could replace them with a 3rd gen OEM board that was twice as fast with color on the motherboard, and 128gig of memory. Made a lot of uses very happy. Had to do that since we could not buy new systems, but only repair them. Capital dollars vs. Expense.
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