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From: terrih@mcnc.org (Terri W. Hardwick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: Model 30-8086 replacement parts.
Message-ID: <7902@alvin.mcnc.org>
Date: 20 May 91 12:56:38 GMT
References: <1991May20.015223.14914@wam.umd.edu>
Reply-To: terrih@mcnc.org.UUCP (Terri W. Hardwick)
Organization: MCNC; RTP, NC
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In article <1991May20.015223.14914@wam.umd.edu> dml@wam.umd.edu (Douglas M. Lindsey ) writes:
>My PS/2 Model 30 (original, 8086-based), recently suffered damage to the serial
>port as a result of a lightning strike to the telphone lines.  I ran diags on
>it, and got the cheery "Replace System Unit" message.  
>
>...find a replacement motherboard for the machine from IBM or from somewhere
>
>								-Doug


Typically, the only thing damaged would be the serial port circuitry.
The cheapest alternative would be to just purchase a microchannel
serial port board.

Last summer we had a lightning strike near an auxilary office building,
and all our communications lines were buried copper.  We lost serial
ports on every terminal and PS2 in that building, as well as communcations
ports on the VAX and HP computers and other communcations devices in the
main building.
Needless to say, we switched to fiber immediately.  Installing a serial
board was the only thing I had to do to the PS2's.

terrih@mcnc.org