On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Rick DeNatale wrote: > Nowadays, besides the mouse/keyboard interface, I beleive that more > folks associate PS/2 and PS/1 with Sony playstations than with IBM > computers.
Since I like being pedantic (hey, at least I'll admit it), I should point out that the Playstation 2 is abbreviated PS2 without a slash, unlike the IBM PS/2. The original Playstation is not called PS1 except by revisionist historians. This is slightly different from the IBM PS/1, which as discussed was produced by IBM *after* the PS/2. It was called the PS/1 because it reused the old ISA archictecture after the Microchannel effort failed to gain traction. I had a "remanufactured" IBM PS/1, 486 DX2 class, purchased from the short-lived factory outlet store in Morrissville, for almost 7 years. I had no hardware problems (though I did replace the original hard drive somewhere along the way). It was a solid machine, though by the end a 486 seemed pretty darn slow. :-) --Jeremy -- /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Jeremy Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \---------------------------------------------------------------------/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
