ButINeededThatName
Experienced Member
So, seeing as a lot of you on here seem to like this model of PS/2 as much as I do, I thought I'd share my model 95!
I've had this system since my sophmore year of high school when I saved it from what would have been a tragic end at the local recycling center. It was orignaly the school's network, mail and file server, at one point was hooked up to a few external SCSI enclosures and was networked up to the various Model 90s that each classroom had (just the teachers) for internal mail and pulling assignments up to be printed in-classroom and handed out. Sadly with the exception of this system, all of the school's other IBM gear ended up at the afformentioned recycling center years beforehand when they downgraded to Pentium III Gateway machines, and later continued the spiral down to Celeron equipped Dell Optiplexes with barely enough memory to run Windows. I've never once regretted saving this system, even when I had to carry it up four flights of stairs, and seeing the insane prices people ask for them now has only made me cling to it even more.
Anyways, with that little tid-bit of background information down, let's get to the fun part!
My particular system is a 9595-0QT that has had a 90Mhz Pentium complex and four 32Mb ECC SIMMs installed! It also has a QIC drive and caddy-loading CD-ROM drive, as well as most of the SCSI hard drives I had lying around installed into it. On a side note, my display is looking a little blue. Maybe I should try and cheer it up with some adjusting :rofl:.
Taking a look inside, you'll see the typical devices as well as my selection of expansion cards. From top to bottom you have:
-The later revision "Spock" SCSI controller upgraded to 2Mb of cache, the latter which I may or may not have "borrowed" from my Model 30
-An XGA-2 Adapter with fully populated cache
-A Madge 16/4 Smart Ringnode Token Ring Adapter
-An IBM Ethernet Adapter
-A 5.25" Diskette Drive Controller for when I need to use my external 360k drive to write disks for my IBM XT
All in all I consider myself to be extremely lucky to have such a nice system.
I've had this system since my sophmore year of high school when I saved it from what would have been a tragic end at the local recycling center. It was orignaly the school's network, mail and file server, at one point was hooked up to a few external SCSI enclosures and was networked up to the various Model 90s that each classroom had (just the teachers) for internal mail and pulling assignments up to be printed in-classroom and handed out. Sadly with the exception of this system, all of the school's other IBM gear ended up at the afformentioned recycling center years beforehand when they downgraded to Pentium III Gateway machines, and later continued the spiral down to Celeron equipped Dell Optiplexes with barely enough memory to run Windows. I've never once regretted saving this system, even when I had to carry it up four flights of stairs, and seeing the insane prices people ask for them now has only made me cling to it even more.
Anyways, with that little tid-bit of background information down, let's get to the fun part!
My particular system is a 9595-0QT that has had a 90Mhz Pentium complex and four 32Mb ECC SIMMs installed! It also has a QIC drive and caddy-loading CD-ROM drive, as well as most of the SCSI hard drives I had lying around installed into it. On a side note, my display is looking a little blue. Maybe I should try and cheer it up with some adjusting :rofl:.
Taking a look inside, you'll see the typical devices as well as my selection of expansion cards. From top to bottom you have:
-The later revision "Spock" SCSI controller upgraded to 2Mb of cache, the latter which I may or may not have "borrowed" from my Model 30
-An XGA-2 Adapter with fully populated cache
-A Madge 16/4 Smart Ringnode Token Ring Adapter
-An IBM Ethernet Adapter
-A 5.25" Diskette Drive Controller for when I need to use my external 360k drive to write disks for my IBM XT
All in all I consider myself to be extremely lucky to have such a nice system.