Two Stop Bits | the ps/2 wa a major flop. but not in that it didn't sell units. i saw a few of t...

zxm 226 days ago | parent

the ps/2 wa a major flop. but not in that it didn't sell units. i saw a few of them in ireland in the 1980s. but owners quickly learned that expanding the computers in any way was very expensive. the micro channel bus was better and more efficent than isa that it replaced but mca cards were around 4+ times the price of their isa counterparts.

it made quite a few ibm pc buyers choose non ibm pc computers after the ps/2

bmonkey325 226 days ago
Amongst consumers perhaps, but corporate I think it did well. I remember quite a lot of PS/2 at university in US/Canada at a steep discount in business and engineering disciplines.
My hatred of MCA was born out of keeping the magic disk. You couldn't get the bios to recognize the card until you applied the magic disk to the system.