appiah4 wrote on 2020-02-17, 07:06:
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My real question here though, IBM stuff are notorious for being terribly proprietary and the PSU here is obviously not AT. How about the rest of the system? Can I just plug in an ISA Multi IO and assume everything will work on IDE? Have I made a dumb purchase?
Of course, this isn't an AT case but an LPX one. Tbh by IBM standards this stuff isn't too bad. I have an IBM PS/1 motherboard, slightly newer than this one. PSU is plain AT, tbh this one also looks like that. It has regular I/O onboard including IDE. The only non-standard bit is the exact location of the riser slot, which means that it doesn't fit into a case designed for an Intel OEM LPX board. You probably don't even need that I/O card.
Intel486dx33 wrote on 2020-02-17, 09:23:[...] […]
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IBM PS/1’S where the pinnacle of the 486 computer that IBM provided for the consumer.
After years of developing computers this PS/1 was there final glory build for the 486.
The Multimedia edition especially.
IBM put all it’s experience and knowledge into this build to make it easy for the consumer to operate.
NOFI but what on earth have you been smoking?
PS/1 were overpriced, underspecced, outclassed by pretty much all the contemporary clones and much ridiculed for it by enthousiasts and in the media at the time. The "easy" menu system was a big part of that, second only to MS Bob in terms of klunky unusability.
Even from IBM the PS/1 wasn't in any way the pinnacle, you could argue whether the later PS/2 486 models were better or the early PC330 series. In any event, compared to both PS/1 was low-end crap, and in no way superior to say a contemporary Packard Bell that cost far less and did a better job of idiot-proofing the experience.