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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
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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.