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From: support@ism780c.isc.com (Support account)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: IBM model P70 and ISC2.2 ???
Message-ID: <47485@ism780c.isc.com>
Date: 14 Sep 90 16:29:21 GMT
References: <1990Sep12.234504.6014@medicus.com>
Reply-To: support@ism780c.UUCP (Support account)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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In article <1990Sep12.234504.6014@medicus.com> dave@medicus.com (Dave Truckenmiller) writes:
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>Does anyone have any experience running an IBM model P70 386 with ISC 2.2?
>We have such a beast here (The model P70 is the portable not to be confused
>with the model 70 which is the desktop machine.), and ISC 2.2 will load up 
>fine but the plasma display does something that can only be described as
>StRaNgE.  The machine has a 115MB ESDI hard disk and 8MB of memory, along
>    If I plug a *real* monitor (Well, the monitor from the IBM model 80)
>    into the monitor port in the back of the P70, then I get both the Plasma
>    display (with the jiggle) and the monitor display (which is perfect).
>    This, however, is not a very portable configuration.

The model P70 is only supported using a standard monitor
hooked to the monitor port. The jiggle is related to
registers unsupported by our display driver. There are
other portables with plasma screens which do work with
Interactive, but not the IBM.











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