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In 1987, it was the IBM PS/2 286 Model 20 $2500

The PC sported TWO 3.5 inch disk drives! The next year (1988), the incoming class got the IBM PS/2 Model 30 with one 3.5 inch disk drive and a 20-Megabyte hard drive, lucky schmucks. Of course the previous class had gotten PS/1's with 1 3.5 inch disk drive and one 5.25 inch disk drive.

We had to pay about $2500 for the computers, but they came with a stack of software on 3.5 inch drives. Good stuff like IBM DOS, BASIC, Pascal, Fortran and OS/2

You would boot the computer up loading DOS on the a: drive. You could then use your floppy disk on the b: drive to save your work. Yes, if you were writing a paper or program, forgot to save it, and the power went out, your work was gone.

good times

[Post edited by Hokie1992 at 09/25/2019 05:24AM]

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Link: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/2585/IBM-PS-2-Model-30/

Posted: 09/25/2019 at 05:16AM

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