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Author: David Eisinger <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2024 13:58:12 -0500
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title: "About"
date: 2024-03-06T23:04:44-05:00
draft: false
+references:
+- title: "IBM PS/2 Model P70 | Laptop Pics"
+ url: http://laptop.pics/ibm-ps-2-model-p70/
+ date: 2024-03-09T18:44:46Z
+ file: laptop-pics-u7z4hz.txt
+- title: "The 1998 HFStival"
+ url: https://hfs98.tripod.com/
+ date: 2024-02-21T04:38:29Z
+ file: hfs98-tripod-com-jmnzh1.txt
+- title: "The 1999 HFStival"
+ url: https://hfs99.tripod.com/
+ date: 2024-02-21T04:38:54Z
+ file: hfs99-tripod-com-v7f3u9.txt
---
I'm a technologist living in Durham, North Carolina, USA with my wife and daughter, plus a dog named Steve and a parrot named Tad.
-I work as a developer and manager at [Viget][1], where I've been building things for the web since 2008. Ruby is my primary language, but I enjoy working across a variety of technologies.
+My parents met at IBM and I grew up around computers (my favorite was the [PS/2 Model P70][1]). We were online pretty early, first with [Prodigy][2] and AOL, then moving onto the web. I started making websites in middle school (a few I made as an underclassman in high school are [still][3] [online][4] as of March 2024). I interned at [webMethods][5] for two summers and saw both sides of the original web bubble. I studied Computer Science in college and have been making stuff for the web professionally ever since.
-In my free time, I enjoy running, cycling, woodworking, making [music][2], and creative programming.
+[1]: http://laptop.pics/ibm-ps-2-model-p70/
+[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_(online_service)
+[3]: https://hfs98.tripod.com/
+[4]: https://hfs99.tripod.com/
+[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebMethods
-[1]: https://www.viget.com/
-[2]: /music/
+I work as a developer and manager at [Viget][6], where I've been since 2008. Ruby is my primary language, but I enjoy working across a variety of technologies. I'm super interested in Golang these days.
+
+In my free time, I enjoy running, cycling, woodworking, making [music][7], and creative programming.
+
+[6]: https://www.viget.com/
+[7]: /music/
---
## Contact
-I'm available by email at [[email protected]][3]. I'd love to hear from you.
+I'm available by email at [[email protected]][8]. I'd love to hear from you.
-[3]: mailto:[email protected]
+[8]: mailto:[email protected]
-You can [receive my monthly dispatches via email][4] or [add my RSS feed to your feed reader][5] (I use and recommend [Feedbin][6]).
+You can [receive my monthly dispatches via email][9] or [add my RSS feed to your feed reader][10] (I use and recommend [Feedbin][11]).
-[4]: https://dispatch.davideisinger.com/subscription/form
-[5]: /index.xml
-[6]: https://feedbin.com/
+[9]: https://dispatch.davideisinger.com/subscription/form
+[10]: /index.xml
+[11]: https://feedbin.com/
---
## Colophon
-This site is built with [Hugo][7]. I recommend Brian P. Hogan's [_Build Websites with Hugo_][8] if you'd like to set up your own Hugo site from first principles.
+This site is built with [Hugo][12]. I recommend Brian P. Hogan's [_Build Websites with Hugo_][13] if you'd like to set up your own Hugo site from first principles.
-It's deployed via GitHub Actions to a small Digital Ocean server running behind Cloudflare. I use [Caddy][9] in a Docker container to serve the site.
+It's deployed via GitHub Actions to a small Digital Ocean server running behind Cloudflare. I use [Caddy][14] in a Docker container to serve the site.
-Image dithering is handled via a small webservice I've detailed in [a dedicated post][10].
+Image dithering is handled via a small webservice I've detailed in [a dedicated post][15].
-The links on the homepage are pulled from my [Pinboard bookmarks][11]. I create plaintext backups of pages I link to with [w3m][12].
+The links on the homepage are pulled from my [Pinboard bookmarks][16]. I create plaintext backups of pages I link to with [w3m][17].
-I manage my [monthly dispatch emails][13] with [Listmonk][14], also running as a container behind a Caddy proxy.
+I manage my [monthly dispatch emails][18] with [Listmonk][19], also running as a container behind a Caddy proxy.
-Source code is available on [GitHub][15].
+Source code is available on [GitHub][20].
-[7]: https://gohugo.io/
-[8]: https://pragprog.com/titles/bhhugo/build-websites-with-hugo/
-[9]: https://caddyserver.com/
-[10]: /journal/encrypt-and-dither-photos-in-hugo/
-[11]: https://pinboard.in/u:DCE/public/
-[12]: https://w3m.sourceforge.net/
-[13]: https://dispatch.davideisinger.com/archive
-[14]: https://listmonk.app/
-[15]: https://github.com/dce/davideisinger.com/
+[12]: https://gohugo.io/
+[13]: https://pragprog.com/titles/bhhugo/build-websites-with-hugo/
+[14]: https://caddyserver.com/
+[15]: /journal/encrypt-and-dither-photos-in-hugo/
+[16]: https://pinboard.in/u:DCE/public/
+[17]: https://w3m.sourceforge.net/
+[18]: https://dispatch.davideisinger.com/archive
+[19]: https://listmonk.app/
+[20]: https://github.com/dce/davideisinger.com/
diff --git a/static/archive/laptop-pics-u7z4hz.txt b/static/archive/laptop-pics-u7z4hz.txt
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+[1][laptop-pics]
+
+ • [2]Apple
+ • [3]Atari
+ • [4]Canon
+ • [5]Dell
+ • [6]HP
+ • [7]IBM
+ • [8]Lenovo
+ • [9]Panasonic
+ • [10]SAGER
+ • [11]Toshiba
+
+
+[12]IBM PS/2 Model P70
+
+ • [13]May 16, 2018
+ • [14]Jack
+ • [15]5 Comments
+
+
+Introduction
+
+It’s 1989. Most people are using 286 or 386-based systems with 2-4 MB of
+memory, and an EGA monitor. Some people are still using the IBM 5150 PC or 5160
+XT, likely paired with an MDA card and green-screen monitor (both of which were
+still sold new within the last 3 years). A few people have Amigas, Ataris,
+Macintosh IIs, or new 486 machines. The new [16]Atari Portfolio is sometimes
+used on the road, as well as the older Epson HX-20 and TRS-80 Model 100. Quite
+a few people are using 2400 baud external modems to connect to Bulletin Board
+Systems and download utilities like PKZIP or PKARC. But there’s one portable
+computer coming out that has everything you could ask for on-the-go – a VGA
+Screen, a 386 running at up to 20 MHz, and a hard drive with a size of up to
+120 MB (!).
+
+[17][p70-2-1024x941][18][p70-1-1024x914]
+
+Meet the IBM PS/2 P70. Not related to the modern ThinkPad P70 (which came out
+in 2015), the PS/2 P70 was a “luggable” Microchannel Architecture (MCA)
+computer, with an amber gas-plasma display similar to the [19]Toshiba T5200. It
+came with a truly pleasant fold-down mechanical keyboard, gorgeous display,
+3.5″ Floppy Drive (when many people were still using 5.25″), and, of course, a
+PS/2 Port for a mouse (when serial mice, InPort mice, and no mice at all were
+still very common).
+
+The only problem would have been the prohibitive cost. My model, when it was
+new, cost $7,695 as of the product announcement on May 9, 1989. If we convert
+this to 2018 dollars, we’re looking at $15,486. There are still new cars being
+sold for less than that.
+
+This computer might seem cumbersome, too big to use on the road, and not truly
+portable (since it didn’t run off batteries). But at the time, there were no
+equivalent offerings from Data General, Tandy, Toshiba, Bondwell, Magnavox or
+any other company that manufactured portables of the day. (Especially regarding
+the VGA screen and PS/2 Port.) Also remember that the original Nintendo Game
+Boy was just coming out at this time.
+
+The PS/2 Model P70 is essentially a portable version of the PS/2 Model 70,
+which was a horizontally-oriented Microchannel Desktop system of the time. I do
+have one of these, equipped with two 3.5″ Floppy Drives, 5 MB of RAM, and a 60
+MB ESDI Hard Drive. This particular desktop configuration cost $7,995 in August
+of 1988. I can confirm that the desktop behaves quite similarly to the
+portable, both in design and “mannerisms”.
+
+Working with old computers, and saving them from a trip to the trash, can be
+easier than it seems. I got my PS/2 P70 for fairly cheap, because it had three
+main show-stopping problems: No video (picture), bad CMOS battery, and
+completely missing floppy drive. I installed one of my spare PS/2 L40SX floppy
+drives, popped a new CR-P2 battery into the socketed CMOS Battery Holder, and
+used some DeOxit on the plasma display connector. Good as new.
+
+Note that a working floppy drive is necessary to enter the Configuration
+Utility and set the machine’s parameters, such as Hard Drive Type (otherwise,
+the computer will not know how to boot from it.) If the CMOS battery (6V CR-P2)
+runs out, the machine will “forget” this configuration, and will not boot from
+the hard drive until you run the configuration utility again. This doesn’t
+sound terrible at first, but the P70’s integrated floppy drive is notoriously
+unreliable for a few reasons. First, the vertical design causes dust to
+accumulate in it. Second, it’s semi-proprietary (as it carries power and data
+on the same cable). It’s possible to retrofit a regular IDE floppy drive, but
+this process requires modifications to the cable. Third, the P70’s factory
+floppy drive is prone to capacitor failure, which causes the drive motor to
+spin at full speed, making floppy drive file operations fail!
+
+Pictures
+
+Here are some extreme close-up shots of the interior, taken in 2019:
+
+[20][p70-2021-2-185x300] [21][p70-2021-3-3-300x219]
+
+And here are some action shots:
+
+[22][p70-3-1024x678] [23][p70-4-1024x678] [24][p70-5-1024x712] [25]
+[p70-6-1024x800] [26][p70-7-1024x678]
+
+[27][p70-2021-6-300x251] [28][p70-2021-7-300x225] [29][p70-2021-8-268x300]
+
+Here are some miscellaneous case shots:
+
+[30][p70-2021-5-300x225][31][p70-2021-4-1-300x274][32][p70-2021-1-225x300]
+
+And finally, a picture of the finished product, including the original
+enclosure (which took a while to find) around the Floppy Drive. The entire
+floppy assembly tilts outward when you push on it, and clicks back into place
+for storage:
+
+[33][p70-2021-9-1-300x280]
+
+Revised on June 29, 2021
+
+
+Category: [34]IBM
+[d63005]
+
+About the Author
+
+
+5 Responses to IBM PS/2 Model P70
+
+ 1. [10] [35]John Edwrd Harris says:
+ [36]March 12, 2019 at 4:52 pm
+
+ I acquired a used PS/2 P70 in the late 1990’s that I used for a few years.
+ I used it primarily for word processing and email until I upgraded to used
+ Toshiba satellite laptop. It was heavy, but portable enough that I could
+ take it on the road when attending in-residence seminars. I have some fond
+ memories of that work horse. Thanks for the background information and a
+ trip down memory lane.
+
+ [37]Reply
+ 2. [7b] [38]FANGXIANG says:
+ [39]April 30, 2021 at 4:04 am
+
+ Hello, I’m glad to see your introduction to the P70 computer, some of which
+ I first learned about. I sent you a letter from China, P70 computer is very
+ rare here. I’m lucky to have one. Thank you again for your photos. As you
+ can see from the web page: [40]http://www.pcang.com/fang/
+ ibm_personal_system-2_P70.htm
+
+ [41]Reply
+ 3. [9f] Rita Graça says:
+ [42]June 29, 2021 at 8:42 am
+
+ How does one insert and remove disks in and from the floppy drive? Also, it
+ looks like some sort of plastic should cover it.
+
+ [43]Reply
+ □ [d6] Jack says:
+ [44]June 29, 2021 at 10:43 am
+
+ The entire floppy assembly tilts downward (pops out) when you push on
+ it. As mentioned in the article, I had to use a non-original floppy
+ drive, so it didn’t have any plastic enclosure. However, I found one
+ years later, and just uploaded a picture of the final assembly (at the
+ bottom of the article.)
+
+ [45]Reply
+ 4. [c7] PB says:
+ [46]December 13, 2023 at 8:14 am
+
+ I remember these laying around the IBM Rochester, MN AS/400 lab. They were
+ useful to run the AS/400 terminal software.
+
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