IBM PERSONAL SYSTEM/2 MODEL 30-001 [Looking to upgrade? Advanced tech: Better security? Only $1,695]

IBM ^ | April 4, 1989 | IBM

[Rurudyne]

“Windows ... You will believe your 386 will fly like a 286 running DOS.”

[daniel1212]

The Model 30 was a piece of JUNK.

Thanks. We should wait for a newer model.

[SecondAmendment]

> With DOS, 640K really was enough for anybody

Except the CIA/FBI/NSA/DoD/DHS who need the extra RAM to run their spyware to keep tabs on counter-revolutionaries that voted for Trump ...

[daniel1212]

That MicroChannel Bus will be AWESOME!........................

But do you really need it?

[Paladin2]

As a yute, I was deprived because my parents would not buy an IBM 360 for my bedroom so I could get my homework done faster

[dayglored]

IBM PS/2 Flashback ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

Thanks to daniel1212 for the ping!

[kvanbrunt2]

And you could get Extended or expanded memory. Oracle first came out running in the extended memory partition. I paid $500 for 2 meg hardwired memory board for the IBM machine. Mine was a clone so i had to melt the chips off and put them on an extended memory card. Ran real slow but i had a full blown oracle database running on the machine.

[Red Badger]

Of course I need it!

To run Lotus 1-2-3!.....................

[CodeJockey]

Way back in the early 80’s I worked as an operator on a NCR Criterion mainframe while in college. Believe it or not, it had 512k of main memory. The CDC (Control Data Corp) removable disk packs were 300MB capacity.

The CPU wasn’t multiprocessing, it was multi tasking.

[daniel1212]

Not with this Desktop, out of 32GB: Thank God for providing it.

[Dr. Sivana]

They had guaranteed privacy—no Internet connection!
A $50 Zoom or USR 1200 baud modem and a Delphi account would give you Internet, even then. No web yet, though.

[daniel1212]

As a yute, I was deprived because my parents would not buy an IBM 360 for my bedroom so I could get my homework done faster

Somehow somewhere this deprivation must have violated some principle of Political Correctness.

[daniel1212]

Exciting times, but also innocent times. Back when we, the end users, were who they were trying to please. Somewhere along the line we became the mark, the prey. The tech industry no longer serves us - it serves those preying upon us - its goal is to give them better access to us and reveal our vulnerabilities.

Yes, the tech industry now promotes the moral equivalent of bad coding, of malware.

[thirst4truth]

I remember when I got that first “Disk full error” on that MASSIVE 10 Meg hard drive. That was a shocker!

We sold computers for a living in the 80's and 90's. Our first was in 1982, a dual floppy, don't remember how much ram and a 10" orange monitor, cost $5,000. Everybody we met wanted one, so we became a dealer for a brand, then we built them ourselves for almost 20 years. High end graphics and cad systems, many of them we custom built for the programmers at Microsoft.

I remember when in about 1983 or 84 we put a 5MB hard drive in a dual floppy machine. Everybody that came into our store and saw it, said, "what would you need all that storage for?" Lol, still laugh about it today.

[HangnJudge]

No one will ever need more than 640k memory, you are set for life

[HangnJudge]

Remember DecTape?

[SES1066]

So that we may see what is being discussed: IBM PS/2 Model 30!

FYI: For those not in the know, that is a green-phosphor Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) Monitor there, ah such memories!

[FreedomPoster]

The hard drive event would have been in about ‘85. That was my employer’s PC that we’d upgraded from dual floppy to single floppy and the HDD.

I bought an original IBM-PC 5150 in the Spring of ‘82 on a student discount plan. Took out a small loan, I think the system was about $3500. 2 FDDs, 64k RAM soldered to the motherboard, 5151 green screen monitor and card. Another 64k on a Quadram Quadboard that also got me a serial port, a parallel port, and a clock. Epson MX-80 dot matrix printer.

Those were the days! Hey, I no longer had to go to the computer center on campus!

[Woodman]

We bought and networked several of these at the office. Once we had all we needed I recall them being about $4500 a piece.

[daniel1212]

I remember when in about 1983 or 84 we put a 5MB hard drive in a dual floppy machine. Everybody that came into our store and saw it, said, "what would you need all that storage for?" Lol, still laugh about it today.

I had a 80MB HDD once and thought I would never need that much. And the cost. Now a 32GB flash drive can be less $10.