PS/2 Model 80 with Core International 700MB ESDI HDDs

[Fuzy2K]

That computer has a little more capacity than my original iPod nano! :P

[NOWAdwaltz]

wow sounded like a jet engine when it was spinning down lol

[Markworth]

I love that sound. Means it's working.

They should bring back 5.25" hard drives. With modern technology, a single platter 5.25" would be very impressive and easy to cool.

[Watcher3223]

Speed could be a problem with such a large drive, though.

You can only spin a platter of such size at such a fast speed before it tears itself apart.

[ngtflyer]

Man, that's just cool.  I used to have a self-built 486 box with two ESDI drives in it. Listening to those come up brings back memories!

[brianchris4]

that computer is downright sexy inside :D

[aj0049]

ummm you can get 1.5TB for under $200...

[itscool1968]

you can now but not when it first came out i sell them and the retail was 490

[aj0049]

lol ya i know ;-)

gotta love advancing technology :-D

[Righty736]

Vintage computers are awesome a lot of fun to play with and remember the old days haha.

I just collect the Model M keyboards.

[dodgechryslersucks]

I'm actually almost positive that those Core hard drives are actually "Imprimis" hard drives, a company later bought out by Seagate along with Control Data Systems (CDC).

Imprimis or Seagate must have struck some deal to resell those under another name unless Seagate later dumped that division selling it off to another company.

[lee4hmz]

@dodgechryslersucks Nope, I think what happened is that after Control Data sold MPI to Seagate, Seagate took over sales and marketing. Seagate was classified with the low-end along with MiniScribe at the time, and was trying to go upscale.

As for MPI itself, Seagate kept it around as the enterprise division, first in OKC, then in Shakopee, MN. The original Barracuda from 1992 was an MPI, and the old MPI parts numbering system is still used on the Savvios and Cheetahs.

[lee4hmz]

@lee4hmz I forgot to mention where CORE entered into this. Seems that MPI/CDC wasn't crazy about selling their products directly to end users (most of their customers were OEMs; I know Epson and Compaq used them) and so CORE got the rights to market their drives. The arrangement lasted a while; I've seen ads for some of CDC's really old drives (the original Wren models from c. 1984) in old magazines.

[dodgechryslersucks]

I used to have one, mine had an IBM 330MB or something ESDI though.

I read about this option, some of these were used as servers, that was a lot of capacity and a lot of power back in the day!

[Hiei2k7]

DUAL POWER!!!!

[DRNEGOLICIS]

i just baught a ibm ps2 model 90 XP386 runs nicely has a 70mb hard drive and a tolken ring adapter have no idea how to get it on a network and by the way i love that computer u got there reminds me of my old server i got i need to put a video of it on here when i get a new camera it came with some scsi drive in it one has 8platters and sounds like a dang saw when u turn it on to bad they were dead when i got it i put some wds hard drives 9gb each in it

[Dieselolds]

I got a IBM ps2- 80 386 16Mhz but i dont have a startup or Reference Disk so it wont work.

Where do i get those disks?

[vwestlife]

Is that the Reference Disk you have taped to the inside of the case? :-)

[uxwbill]

Yes it is. :-)

[elhaya]

another great video. keep 'em coming!

[DoReMiIsMyGod]

wow! i will have an model 80!

and

i seach for a soundcard to MCA slots

its not easy to find

[uxwbill]

Sound and Micro Channel do not go together well. The most common cards are the Audiovation or M-ACPA card, both from IBM. However, neither have drivers for anything newer than OS/2 or Windows 3.1x. The Windows 3.1x drivers "kind of" work on Win9x.

[vwestlife]

Those PS/2 towers are TANKS! I once built a table by laying a door across the top of two Model 60s. They also have the largest power supply and largest fan I've ever seen in a personal computer.

I liked the sound of the stock IBM hard drives in these PS/2 towers... when they spun up and the head parking mechanism released, you got a very distinctive "pin dropping" sound -- "PING Ping ping pingpingping..." :-)

[uxwbill]

Computers you can sit on! (I even did that once or twice while they were running--try that with a modern one!)

I had one of those drives in an 8580-311. The noise struck me as odd, but that drive lasted for a good long time.

[Jasonschutze]

I wonder how many pallets are in those hard drives, their probly ¼ thick by the momentum they bult up

[uxwbill]

Quite a few, I'm sure. Part of the reason they have so much momentum build up is because the spindle motor becomes a generator to produce power that is used to park the head stack when the power goes off.

[cmarlow480]

you cant upgrade it past 3.1?

[uxwbill]

I probably could, but it's a 386DX-25. And there's no Linux or Windows driver for the CORE MCK controller. I'm not even sure there is an OS/2 driver for it, and my selection of older OS/2 releases isn't that great.

The Core disk controller is also a little fidgety. I suspect that the 8580-A31 borders on being a little too fast of a machine for it.

[37474748]

386... sweet... those are nice.. i had an ps/2 before... was dumb to shuck it away in the garbage bin... it was an 486 i believe...

[Silverwolfstarz]

i Remeber using a computer like in 1994