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From: todd@uhccux.UUCP (The Perplexed Wiz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hardware problems in PS/2 line?
Message-ID: <1048@uhccux.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 01:22:47 EST
Article-I.D.: uhccux.1048
Posted: Mon Nov  2 01:22:47 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Nov-87 02:49:27 EST
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Reply-To: todd@uhccux.UUCP (The Perplexed Wiz)
Organization: U. of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu)
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In article <2109@encore.UUCP> chan@encore.UUCP (Jerry Chan) writes:
>I read somewhere recently (within the last month) that IBM had problems with
>power supplies on a lower-end model (Model 30, I believe).  According to the
>article, there isn't sufficient "juice" available on the backplane to allow
>more than a single slot to be used (of which four(?) are available); I
>forget the exact details of which board was referred to -- a lan controller?

The problem involved the board needed for the Model-30 desktop publishing
configuration.

BTW: The info on the PS/2 BIOS error problem was documented in the
10/5/87 issue of InfoWorld.   For those of you who haven't gotten
a patched DOS disk yet, InfoWorld suggests that you enter the DOS 'date'
command immediately BEFORE TURNING OFF the system.

...todd

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Todd Ogasawara, U. of Hawaii Faculty Development Program
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