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echo: classic_computer
to: Mike Powell
from: Kurt Weiske
date: 2019-05-03 06:42:00
subject: Re: IBM PS/2

-=> Mike Powell wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-

 MP> IIRC, LexMark was formed in a similar fashion... IBM was ditching the
 MP> printer business and another group either took it over, or was spun-out
 MP> of IBM.

 MP> That was also around 1992-94.

I was inventorying equipment at my most recent job, and found a room
with a PS/2 model 80 and an IBM (not Lexmark) 4019 laser printer -
exactly the same combo I started my IT career on in 1991.

Apparently they were keeping it around as a restore target for an old
backup tool they still had in production.

If they had a model M, those clunky IBM mice and an 8514 monitor, I
would have set it up on my desk.



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