Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihnp4!poseidon!psrc From: psrc@poseidon.UUCP (Paul S. R. Chisholm) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: New IBM PS/2-30 (was Re: A plot against IBM?) Summary: PS/2 Model 30 286 floppy drives are 1.4M Message-ID: <516@poseidon.UUCP> Date: 27 Sep 88 02:22:52 GMT References: <3959@bsu-cs.UUCP> <9182@cup.portal.com> <38600@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 17 < "NO toon can resist the old shave-and-a-haircut gag!" > In article <38600@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>, spolsky-avram@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) writes: > Right! It's still called the model 30 but it has a '286 and three AT > slots. It comes in a dual 720K 3.5" floppy version, and a 20Meg hard > disk version. Well, no; when they "scrapped MCGA and moved up to VGA", they also went to 1.4M floppy disks. (OS/2 disks come in 1.2M format for 5.25", and 1.4M format for 3.5" disks.) Yes, it comes in a two floppy model. > Joel Spolsky bitnet: spolsky@yalecs uucp: ...!yale!spolsky > Yale University arpa: spolsky@yale.edu voicenet: 203-436-1483 Paul S. R. Chisholm, psrc@poseidon.att.com (formerly psc@lznv.att.com) AT&T Bell Laboratories, att!poseidon!psrc, AT&T Mail !psrchisholm I'm not speaking for the company, I'm just speaking my mind.