Re: 9556 and more than 16mb ram?

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 18:37:24 UTC, "UZnal" <unalz-at-mail333-dot-com>
wrote:

> > low-end systems when new...
>
> At announcement time, USD 2,700 to 3,200 a piece with 8M RAM, without
> monitor, keyboard and a mouse. Intended as a DOS/Win or OS/2 business
> desktop.
>
> > I wonder which would have been more work for IBM...to put this CPU on
> > an existing 16/24-bit planar or to have developed a full 32 bit planar
>
> But marketing dictates, I suppose. XGA-2 was there to meet ISO requirements.
> Of course, it would have made technically more sense to exploit the CPU, but
> then that would have added up to USD 1,000 more and that in the business
> office segment. Also, the cost of memory per 1M was still quite high.
I started this thread about the 9556 and forgot to mention that it has
a built-in CD-ROM, I think that it is the IBM CD-ROM I/II. For a low
end business machine, $2700-3200 is pretty steep! I found this
machine still in its box at my old school in junk room that was being
cleaned out. They were going to throw it out along with IBM 8"
floppies that were used to run an ancient server machine.


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