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IBM PS/1 - original OS needed

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Name: Sliwa
Date: May 20, 2004 at 10:34:37 Pacific
OS: IBM DOS
CPU/Ram: 386sx-16/2MB
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Hello! Lately I got I PS/1, 2121 model (s/n tb55-000zz9d). But it have no original disks or hdd (I read somewhere here that it had a 40MB hdd (or something like). So I have few questions:
1. Where can I get disk with configuring (bios) utility
2. Is there any problem with installing some other hdd? Cables are very short and I don't want to broke something. Can I put some other data cable? And what hdd (model/mark) was in it originally?
Thank You.

Appereance and Reality.



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Name: flimflam
Date: May 20, 2004 at 11:02:28 Pacific
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There is a search function on this forum and the following is probably what you need:

http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/14206.html

Also I think you will find PS/1 hardware is specific to IBM PC's, though even with a 40MB hard drive it is useful for MSDOS or equivelent, ie Webserver, Dial-up Modem Sharing, Internet Basic Access, MSword 5. W3.x is feasible but personally would not recommend:

http://www.mwpms.uklinux.net/


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Response Number 2
Name: flimflam
Date: May 20, 2004 at 11:14:35 Pacific
Reply:

ftp://ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/ps1aptiva/


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Response Number 3
Name: Sliwa
Date: May 20, 2004 at 11:52:17 Pacific
Reply:

Thank You
Well I searched for it once, so it seems I missed it then.
Thanks one more time.

Appereance and Reality.


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Response Number 4
Name: jboy
Date: May 20, 2004 at 11:56:42 Pacific
Reply:

Seems to take a standard IDE hard drive & cable, but there would certainly be BIOS limitations on drive capacity.

Older DOS versions were limited to 32Mb partitions.

Some background on the model here

Yeah, stuff's been moved about at the IBM FTP site, I think 'ps1aptiva/original_files/configuration/' is where you might find the configuration utility.

Bleat at me no longer.


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