classic X86 hardware

[Tore S Bekkedal]

On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 16:32 -0500, Paul Koning wrote:
> >>>>> "Tore" == Tore S Bekkedal <Tore> writes:
> 
>  Tore> On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 15:00 -0500, 9000 VAX wrote:
>  >> 4. The IBM "butterfly" 486 laptop
>  Tore> A lot of the early portable/laptop machines were interesting,
>  Tore> x86 arch nonwithstanding.
> 
>  Tore> The coolest laptop I know is the IBM PS/2 p70... I'd be most
>  Tore> interested if anyone had this or the p75 in Norway.
> 
> Did you ever see the PowerPC laptop?  I don't know anything about it,
> but I saw one in the hands of an IBM Zurich R&D Lab person.  Looked
> just like a plain old Thinkpad, but it ran Unix and I'm 95% sure it
> had a PowerPC, not an x86 processor.
> 
> Oh yes, it also had a French keyboard to mess up the rest of the
> world, with the letters in the wrong place... :-)


For a PPC ThinkPad I'd gladly get used to that :)

The p70 was MCA, had one 32-bit and one 16-bit slot. This meant... You
could insert a full System/370 CPU!!

Imagine that, a VMS portable...!

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Tore S Bekkedal <toresbe at ifi.uio.no>