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From: spolsky-avram@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: New IBM PS/2-30 (was Re: A plot against IBM?)
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Date: 23 Sep 88 00:06:50 GMT
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In article <9182@cup.portal.com> Howard_Reed_Johnson@cup.portal.com writes:
| In a recent article, mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus) states:
| |  While I'm on the subject of rumors, has anyone heard that IBM is planning
| |  to release a new PS/2 Model 35 that goes back to the old AT bus?  Maybe
| |  IBM has decided to abandon there own creation?
| 
| My understanding is that the Model 35 corrects a deficiency in
| the Model 30 -- the 8086 in the Model 30 is replaced by an 80286 in
| the Model 35. 

Right! its 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.

Also I think they scrapped MCGA and moved up to VGA.

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