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- From: pratta@rpi.edu (Anthony Edward Prattico)
- Subject: Re: 50 or 50z ?
- In-Reply-To: visbieda@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu's message of 16 Dec 92 02:49:00 GMT
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- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- References: <199215.4892.2662@dosgate> <BzBztu.EGq@acsu.buffalo.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 20:10:23 GMT
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- In article <BzBztu.EGq@acsu.buffalo.edu> visbieda@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Christopher Bieda) writes:
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- >In article <199215.4892.2662@dosgate>, "richard anstruther" <richard.anstruther@canrem.com> writes...
- >
- >>I recently received a used PS/2 model 50 with the front nameplate
- >>missing. A sticker on the back says "8550-031". How can I tell
- >>whether this is a model 50 or 50Z?
- >
- >It's a "Z." The "-031" indicates the hard drive size (30mb) it shipped out
- >with, and the 50 ever only shipped with a 20 (hence "8550-021"), whilst the
- >"Z" variant came with a 30 and a 60 ("8550-031" and "8550-061," respectively).
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- Also, I believe that on the oval IBM logo on the front it says "Model 50Z"
- under "Personal System/2"
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