IBM's 386 Tower of Power: The PS/2 Model 80

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Compaq beat IBM to the 386 PC punch, but the Big Blue Empire struck back with the Personal System/2 Model 80 386. With a 32-bit Micro Channel bus and room for six drives IBM was making a big case for the future of computing. But what’s inside this monstrous machine and what upgrades are available? Join me as I pull this PC apart to see what you got when you bought a $6850 workstation in 1990. Blog Post: https://www.userlandia.com/home/ibm-ps2-model-80 -=- Chapters -=- 00:00 - Intro 00:35 - Adopting a Micro Channel PC 04:38 - The Case 07:35 - Drive Bays and Power Supply 09:30 - Disassembling the Model 80 13:35 - Micro Channel Slots and Cards 15:53 - Auxiliary Video Extension 18:38 - Token Ring Network Card 19:05 - IBM PS/2 SCSI Adapter 19:51 - IBM Enhanced 80386 Memory Adapter w/ ROM 23:12 - Programmable Option Select 25:31 - Auto Configuration In Action 27:51 - Period Appropriate Productivity 29:15 - XGA-2 Graphics Adapter 34:21 - Conclusion & Outro -=- Links -=- * Ardent Tool of Capitalism - https://www.ardent-tool.com * Model 8580-081 Resources - https://www.ardent-tool.com/8580/Planar_T2.html * Tube Time's MCA Tutorial: https://github.com/schlae/mca-tutorial * The Micro Channel Architecture Handbook by Chet Heath and Winn Rosch: https://archive.org/details/microchannelarch00heat * IBM Museum - https://www.youtube.com/@IBM_Museum/ * BOPT 16 MB Barrier Walkthrough: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware/c/SIRXr3RBBLM/m/4fDpZeg-YtkJ -=- Contact -=- Follow on Mastodon: https://bitbang.social/@kefkafloyd Follow on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/kefkafloyd.bsky.social Visit The Website: https://www.userlandia.com Join The Userlandia Discord: https://discord.com/invite/z2jmF93 Theme Song by Space Vixen: https://spacevixen.bandcamp.com Follow them on Bluesky @SpaceVixen: https://bsky.app/profile/spacevixen.bsky.social