[IBM Personal System/2 Model 70]


Tim's IBM 8570 web pages. . . Big Bad Blue at its best. . .

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 Okay, I can sound corny. Fate brought us together:). I went into a used-computer store 6 or so years ago to buy more memory for an 8555 PS/2, my first computer. That machine didn't care for the new SIMMs, and I went back to the store, the guy must have been a used car salesman. Rather than give me my money back, I ended up leaving with this Model 70 PS/2. . . which I knew was vaguely better than the machine I already possessed, because this one had the full 32-bit address bus. Brought the machine home, and immediately felt taken. I didn't even get a power cord with it. Caveat Emptor.

In the final analysis, I've more than gotten my money's worth:). The machine has taught me much. . . While the 8555 has long been retired, the 8570 has been powered on, more or less for the past 6 years straight.

While I can't hope to equal many other sites about MCA, hopefully I can gather together some information to add to the collective knowledge pool within the MCA user community:)

Entire 8570 site updated, June 2002.

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I would like to thank Chet Heath (the chief architect behind Micro Channel Architecture), Mark Dean (for 8570) and IBM in general for all of this. If you're an OS/2er, run AAAAA.EXE and be grateful for all those folks' effort. 
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You can contact me at toconnor@springnet1.com

Revision history: first posted Feb 7, 2001. Links & content added, images altered Feb 14, 2001. Broken IACT Links repaired Sept 27, 2001. New CX486DRx2-with-Unix stuff added Oct 21, 2001. Discovered CYRIX.SYS driver doesn't work with OS/2 2.1: Nov 4, 2001. All pages updated - June 1, 2002. Minor alterations & links added, Aug. 9, 2002.

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