From: pr@umiacs.umd.edu (Jesus Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: New PS/2's ?!?!
Date: 29 Sep 92 18:42:38 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Originator: pr@fnord.umiacs.umd.edu


In article <8elrmwe00WB25_D=hT@andrew.cmu.edu>, sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stephen M. Lacy) writes:
|> Hi there,
|> 
|> Our newsfeed here says that there's been some more PS/2's announced, but
|> no one seems to know about them.  The computer store here knows about
|> the price drops, but not about any of the new models.  I called the IBM
|> "Education Fulfillment Center" and they didn't know about any of them
|> either.   Any information (slots, drive speeds, etc) about these new
|> machines would be greatly appreciated, since I plan on buying one as
|> soon as I can find out how I would go about doing so.  Here's a qucik
|> summary:
|> 
|> New Video:  XGA-2 does 1024x768 65,536 colors NON INTERLACED (see new monitors)
|>             Twice as fast as standard XGA
|>             All the new computers come with XGA-2, SCSI, 8 Meg RAM
|>             All come with OS/2 2.0 pre-installed.
|> 
|> New Computers:
|>     56 & 57: 486SLC2 running at 50Mhz/25Mhz (clock-doubled)
|>     76 & 77: 486SX 33 Mhz or 
|>              486DX2 66Mhz/33Mhz
|> 

	The 56 and the 76 both have the same cases with 3 slots and 3 bays  there is one
drive bay in the middle of the machine that houses the main hard drive.  The are two in the
front one with the floppy and another one that is open for future expansion.

	The 57 and the 77 are also in the same case.  They both have 4 drive bays with 2 
available.  And the 57 has 5 open slots and the 77 has 4 open (the 77 has the new XGA-2 
adapter taking up a slot whereas the 57486SLC2 has the XGA on the motherboard).

	The difference between the 7X and 5X is that the 5X has a 16-bit data bus whereas
the 7X has a 32-bit data bus.

Jesus M. Rodriguez
pr@umiacs.umd.edu


|>     New Ultimedia machines: Model numbers:
|>         M57 486SLC2
|>         DV M57 486SLC2 
|>         M77 486
|>         M77 486DX2
|>         They come with 16 bit sound,
|>         CD ROM, headphone jack, microphone, volume controls (!) They
|> said that          they range from a 486SLC2 to a 486DX2 66/33  They
|> also have 
|>         Actionmedia II Digital Video Interactive (DVI) technology, which was
|>         developed by IBM and Intel.
|>     Other Server models (85,95) that are way out of most humans spending budget
|> 
|> New Monitors:
|>     9515: 14 inch color, XGA-2
|>     9517: 17 inch color, XGA-2
|>     9518: 14 inch color, VGA
|> 
|> Prices:  All they give are general figures:
|>     From $2,365 for the 56 system to $3,935 for the PS/2 77   (That's retail!)
|>     They also quote: 
|>         $2,265 for Model 56 with 50 Mhz 486SLC2, 8 Mb memory, 104 meg disk
|>             2.88 meg floppy.
|>         $14,015 for Server XP 486, 50 Mhz 486DX, 16 Mb memory, 1 Gig disk, 
|>             2.88 meg floppy.
|> 
|> They also announced a 35-40% cut in retail prices of most of their other
|> systems.
|>     
|> 
|> Steve
|> "When you wake up with me, I'll be your glass of water." -Crowded House


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