I'm glad you decided to upload this video. Medeco was the original lock manufacturer for these systems. The white clip was used to gather up any extra internal SCSI cable you might have and keep it neatly out of the way.
Yeah, it's a cable retainer. The inside of these had really neat and tidy cable management thanks to those clips. Mine was on the SCSI cable so you could install a second hard drive below the floppy.
I worked on a PS/2 which I built out of spare parts which I found to be good and the computer worked the same way they did when new. The computer worked fine for me and I put a hard drive in it which was designed for it and put in a 3.5" floppy disk which was only needed to install new compatible software for this system. After building it I found that I was the only one in my department who knew how to operate it. The state was donated a large group of computers and parts and that was how I built it.
When I ha that pin issue on a VGA socket years back, I just took a pair of pliers and pulled the in out, it's not like it's actually used for anything... :P
Actually all seven actors pictured for the first 18 seconds of this video are from mash, as stonent says plus trapper john mcintyre , hotlips & her lover frank burns.....
Yeah I missed that part. Funny thing is that Trapper John as far as I can recall never shared any screen time with Potter. Blake was killed, Trapper John left, Potter arrived and then Burns left and Winchester arrived.
0:19 I remember that screen, it was quite capable despite its size with 1024x768 @ 85Hz (or was it even higher?) I mean for a 14 or 15" screen that is... I had one of these and it never failed on me... until I replaced it with a TFT xD
Sadly, many years later, in the early-2000s, I had a cheap CRT that was lucky to do 1024x768 at 85 hz, even at 17 inches or a little bigger than that. It was a Phillips 107S, which was boring, but didn't stop me from enjoying 3D graphics... By then, 85 hz was considered boring and you possibly can still see flickering... But it still worked fine years later! Easily several years later, IIRC! The CRTs usually never take a dump, unlike LCDs in the Core 2 era, and plasma Tvs... Plasma Tvs, OTOH, have a tendency to give their version of an RROD! Some LCD Tvs love to give their version of an RROD as well, especially Sharp!
Ah the good old IBM PS/2, I just finished getting a model 30/286 running with proper keyboard and 13" PS/2 VGA monitor. It will be used as the SE (Service Element) computer to control an IBM S/370 model 9375 mainframe.
You can take any modern VGA cable and make it work. Just take needle nose pliers and carefully wiggle Pin 9 back and forth till it breaks off. Now it will fit the ps/2, tandy, etc.
White clip is to wrangle your data cables. I agree with the batter style debate, never have liked the non-coin style, if not for no other reason they are expensive, even back then! ~Jack, VEG
The floppy drives were notoriously failure prone in the PS/2s for some reason. I have a couple unreadable units as well, and its not caps... I have a 3rd I recapped and it works most of the time. itll read and write just fine, but once it goes idle for 5+ seconds, it acts as if the drive is not ready so I have to try it again. then it works again. The single-chip floppy drive designs of the PS/2 make it real difficult to find a probe point for a Scope to figure out if I am getting the correct MFM signal from the heads.
Some old school hardware porn here. Man aren't we glad everything is pretty much standard now? That motherboard and slot layouts were indeed pretty odd, reminded me of what Dell did with their computers in the 2000s to prevent upgrading and force people to get a new system.
I wish you'd do a review of the PS/2 Model 30. I spent a nearly 2000 hard-saved dollars in 1989 for one in college. It was outclassed almost immediately, and essentially a large plastic brick by 1993. Sacred me off of buying computers for 10 years. Awful product, IBM deserved to lose customers and the PC business. I feel almost as bad for the suckers who bought into OS/2.
Because the disks were expensive and by the time they were introduced, CD-ROM drives were already becoming popular, and a 2.88 MB disk wasn't that much of an increase over 1.44 MB compared to the 500+ MB that you could fit on a CD-ROM.
Plus I think I don't ever recall seeing the drives used outside of IBM, though I see the option for the disks in other bioses. I've got a 2008/2009 board that has 2.88MB as a floppy option in the bios.
Toshiba actually invented the extended density format, I believe, and you could buy the drives from a few different manufacturers. But IBM was the only corporation actually shipping them in computers, and standardized BIOS firmware was late to add the necessary support.
Olivetti also sold computers with 2.88MB drives in them. And not only in microchannel systems, also in ISA, EISA and PCI systems. But given the extraordinary non-success of their PCs, they probably did not help the spread of 2.88MB drives too much...
Hey VWestlife, i've installed Ubuntu 17.10 and I am Having this problem where i connect a bluetooth headset to Ubuntu and the Audio Quality is horrible and it skips aswell. Just Letting you know, if you have a solution to fix it please tell me. Thanks. My specs: Intel Pentium 4 650 3.4GHZ 3GB DDR2 RAM Nvidia GeForce 8500GT Ubuntu 17.10 - (Lots of problems with it)
That is nice. To bad it is so beat. I don't think I have ever saw one with the 5.1/4 floppy drive. But I think they offered a cd-rom kit for it as well. Too many years ago. Plus is that not right towards the end of the ps/2 line?
I didn't realize it ended that late. But I do remember the horrible ibm ps1, the ibm aptiva and the ibm pc jr. Plus os/2 and the model 55. Tons of 8086? 80268, 80386, and I don't remember the 486. But I do remember cd-rom drives. I myself had a old ibm ps/2 model 80. Not sure of the sub model. I actually stuck 2 of them together. Allowed me to max out the strange memory slots, dual 2.88 floppy, two esdi drives and correct mouse, keyboard, and monitor. I loaded it with os/2. To bad I got rid of it years ago. Also had some token ring cards with it. Since it was a novel netware server. I think I got that info right. You are talking like 20 years ago.
I recommended VWestlife to a friend who was searching for information on a specific turntable model. He said he found the video very useful but had to watch at x1.5 speed because he could not stand the pace of speech.
I'm glad you decided to upload this video. Medeco was the original lock manufacturer for these systems. The white clip was used to gather up any extra internal SCSI cable you might have and keep it neatly out of the way.
Medeco?! They didn't want anybody in there lol
My whole life seems to hang on every upload of my favorite UA-camrs.
Love the PS/2 song at the end!
Sounds kinda like Stan Ridgway, but surely it's not.
It's by Jake Holmes, the same guy who did "The Softer Side of Sears" jingle, and many others: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Holmes
Interesting choice to be so upbeat while in a minor key.
Yeah, it's a cable retainer. The inside of these had really neat and tidy cable management thanks to those clips. Mine was on the SCSI cable so you could install a second hard drive below the floppy.
I worked on a PS/2 which I built out of spare parts which I found to be good and the computer worked the same way they did when new. The computer worked fine for me and I put a hard drive in it which was designed for it and put in a 3.5" floppy disk which was only needed to install new compatible software for this system. After building it I found that I was the only one in my department who knew how to operate it. The state was donated a large group of computers and parts and that was how I built it.
When I ha that pin issue on a VGA socket years back, I just took a pair of pliers and pulled the in out, it's not like it's actually used for anything... :P
That last ad at the end, it's pretty catchy. I like it.
"How you going to do it, you going to PS/2 it". Nice video. From the time when 256 colours at once was a lot.
Oh man .. three of the MASH 4077 actors in those commercials ... loved that show
4. Radar, Klinger, Col. Potter, Father Mulcahey.
Actually all seven actors pictured for the first 18 seconds of this video are from mash, as stonent says plus trapper john mcintyre , hotlips & her lover frank burns.....
Yeah I missed that part. Funny thing is that Trapper John as far as I can recall never shared any screen time with Potter. Blake was killed, Trapper John left, Potter arrived and then Burns left and Winchester arrived.
Frick, I took so many of these apart back in the day while working for big blue.
Classic SCSI, I love it. The plastic Cable Clamp is for the SCSI Cable management..
It’s a cable clip. You saw them a lot back then
yeah its cable clamp
I always enjoy your computer videos. Please make more of them.
0:19 I remember that screen, it was quite capable despite its size with 1024x768 @ 85Hz (or was it even higher?)
I mean for a 14 or 15" screen that is...
I had one of these and it never failed on me... until I replaced it with a TFT xD
Sadly, many years later, in the early-2000s, I had a cheap CRT that was lucky to do 1024x768 at 85 hz, even at 17 inches or a little bigger than that. It was a Phillips 107S, which was boring, but didn't stop me from enjoying 3D graphics... By then, 85 hz was considered boring and you possibly can still see flickering... But it still worked fine years later! Easily several years later, IIRC!
The CRTs usually never take a dump, unlike LCDs in the Core 2 era, and plasma Tvs... Plasma Tvs, OTOH, have a tendency to give their version of an RROD!
Some LCD Tvs love to give their version of an RROD as well, especially Sharp!
Ah the good old IBM PS/2, I just finished getting a model 30/286 running with proper keyboard and 13" PS/2 VGA monitor. It will be used as the SE (Service Element) computer to control an IBM S/370 model 9375 mainframe.
You can take any modern VGA cable and make it work. Just take needle nose pliers and carefully wiggle Pin 9 back and forth till it breaks off. Now it will fit the ps/2, tandy, etc.
A long time ago i had a model 77. God I miss that machine...
Love the retro commercials
I literally just picked one of these up Saturday. If the floppy drive works, I'll let you know, might be able to send it your way.
Excellent video,great presentation 👍🏼
White clip is to wrangle your data cables. I agree with the batter style debate, never have liked the non-coin style, if not for no other reason they are expensive, even back then! ~Jack, VEG
Nostalgia trip
11:25 - "How ya gonna do it? Weeeell... You gonna PS/2it!" lol
Another great video, as always!
what the heck the cast of MASH advertising computers..??!! That has to be the most random shit ever. Also Hotlips is a BABE!
oo, i have monitor lead with that missing pin, and a matching pc with that pin hole blanked off, ICL Ergo Pro..486
It is a ribbon cable retaining cable
The floppy drives were notoriously failure prone in the PS/2s for some reason. I have a couple unreadable units as well, and its not caps... I have a 3rd I recapped and it works most of the time. itll read and write just fine, but once it goes idle for 5+ seconds, it acts as if the drive is not ready so I have to try it again. then it works again. The single-chip floppy drive designs of the PS/2 make it real difficult to find a probe point for a Scope to figure out if I am getting the correct MFM signal from the heads.
Stupid question, have you washed the boards? If not, electrolyte residue may still be upsetting things.
Some old school hardware porn here. Man aren't we glad everything is pretty much standard now? That motherboard and slot layouts were indeed pretty odd, reminded me of what Dell did with their computers in the 2000s to prevent upgrading and force people to get a new system.
I wish you'd do a review of the PS/2 Model 30. I spent a nearly 2000 hard-saved dollars in 1989 for one in college. It was outclassed almost immediately, and essentially a large plastic brick by 1993. Sacred me off of buying computers for 10 years. Awful product, IBM deserved to lose customers and the PC business. I feel almost as bad for the suckers who bought into OS/2.
I already did a video about the Model 30-286 several years ago.
I feels bad for you, really
We still use os/2, lots of governments, the metro card system of nyc, most atm machines. They just modify the overlay.
I wonder. Why 2,88 MB floppy drives never caught on?
Because the disks were expensive and by the time they were introduced, CD-ROM drives were already becoming popular, and a 2.88 MB disk wasn't that much of an increase over 1.44 MB compared to the 500+ MB that you could fit on a CD-ROM.
Thank you for your quick response.
Plus I think I don't ever recall seeing the drives used outside of IBM, though I see the option for the disks in other bioses. I've got a 2008/2009 board that has 2.88MB as a floppy option in the bios.
Toshiba actually invented the extended density format, I believe, and you could buy the drives from a few different manufacturers. But IBM was the only corporation actually shipping them in computers, and standardized BIOS firmware was late to add the necessary support.
Olivetti also sold computers with 2.88MB drives in them. And not only
in microchannel systems, also in ISA, EISA and PCI systems. But given the extraordinary non-success of their PCs, they probably did not help the spread of 2.88MB drives too much...
I live in Manassas, VA!
Hey VWestlife, i've installed Ubuntu 17.10 and I am Having this problem where i connect a bluetooth headset to Ubuntu and the Audio Quality is horrible and it skips aswell. Just Letting you know, if you have a solution to fix it please tell me. Thanks.
My specs:
Intel Pentium 4 650 3.4GHZ
3GB DDR2 RAM
Nvidia GeForce 8500GT
Ubuntu 17.10 - (Lots of problems with it)
That is nice. To bad it is so beat. I don't think I have ever saw one with the 5.1/4 floppy drive. But I think they offered a cd-rom kit for it as well. Too many years ago. Plus is that not right towards the end of the ps/2 line?
The PS/2 line was discontinued around 1995.
I didn't realize it ended that late. But I do remember the horrible ibm ps1, the ibm aptiva and the ibm pc jr. Plus os/2 and the model 55. Tons of 8086? 80268, 80386, and I don't remember the 486. But I do remember cd-rom drives. I myself had a old ibm ps/2 model 80. Not sure of the sub model. I actually stuck 2 of them together. Allowed me to max out the strange memory slots, dual 2.88 floppy, two esdi drives and correct mouse, keyboard, and monitor. I loaded it with os/2. To bad I got rid of it years ago. Also had some token ring cards with it. Since it was a novel netware server. I think I got that info right. You are talking like 20 years ago.
Uncle Alex looks younger than his nephew!
I've got the same computer and I can't connect my old VGA monitor. Where can I get a VGA adapter for this computer?
thank you!
APPLE ivm put them to shame back in the late 8,0 s and early 9,0s.
Nice!
Plastic piece is a ribbon clamp.
I was the 4000th viewer ur welcome have a good day UA-cam
I recommended VWestlife to a friend who was searching for information on a specific turntable model. He said he found the video very useful but had to watch at x1.5 speed because he could not stand the pace of speech.
I heard somewhere you could hook up your monitor using the PS2 mouse port with this model.
I was referring to this moment: 9:24
Note the correction on the screen.
How you gonna do it? How? You gonna PS/2 it!
do u have a IBM PS/2 model 95 Server?
*IBM is the solution...*
Man all the M*A*S*H tv show actors were working for IBM back then weren't they :)
You block ads on your own channel. How lovely...
So? Unlike LinusTechTips, I don't think people who use ad blockers are "scummy".
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