Re: IBM PS/2 Model 25 questions   
     By: andrew clarke to Kurt Weiske on Sat Feb 13 2016 09:07 pm   
      
    KW>> That could be a challenge. I don't think the 25 had a microchannel   
    KW>> slot.   
      
    AC> Well maybe. Wikipedia says the 80286 Model 25s had ISA (not MCA) slots but   
    AC> the 8088 Model 25s had no expansion slots at all.   
      
   That's RIGHT! I remember them including a ISA slot causing a stink; IBM didn't   
   want it to seem like they'd admitted than MCA wasn't all it was made out to   
   be.   
      
   I worked a job back then that was all IBM. I had a Model 80 - the tower with a   
   386, 80 megabyte ESDI drive, 8 megabytes of RAM, and OS/2 1.3. I was amazed at   
   what OS/2 could do back then -- Word, Excel, connectivity to IBM AS/400s,   
   Netware, and LAN Manager networks, and I had a comm program that could handle   
   2400 baud without a hitch with everything else running.   
      
   I still have the Model M keyboard from that system.   :)   
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