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  • Were there any 8525 system-board based systems?

    From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 12 20:05:50 2022
    Did the 8525 shaped system board come in a non "all-in-one" system? The
    8525 would be an interesting little box if it used an external monitor...

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  • From gfretwell@aol.com@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 12 21:55:33 2022
    On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 20:05:50 -0600, Louis Ohland <ohland@charter.net>
    wrote:

    Did the 8525 shaped system board come in a non "all-in-one" system? The
    8525 would be an interesting little box if it used an external monitor...

    It was just a cost reduced mod 30 8086.
    IBM did use that mod 30 board in a cash register that Wendy's used.

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  • From IBMMuseum@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 14 11:20:04 2022
    Did the 8525 shaped system board come in a non "all-in-one" system? The
    8525 would be an interesting little box if it used an external monitor...

    I know you are still counting this as an "All-in-One", but it is still cool: https://vintagecomputer.ca/ibm-7690-nursing-station-yup-its-a-ps2/

    It was just a cost reduced mod 30 8086.
    IBM did use that mod 30 board in a cash register that Wendy's used.

    Correct, the Model 25 lacks the RTC of the Model 30 (although I wish someone would replicate the 7690 riser) - which doesn't matter for an ICLAS to get the system time while RIPLing over the network.

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  • From William R. Walsh@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 20 15:53:31 2022
    Did the 8525 shaped system board come in a non "all-in-one" system? The
    8525 would be an interesting little box if it used an external monitor...

    I'm way late to the party (don't get here often any longer, and have only
    the one computer still even set up to do the Usenet thing...)...yes. The
    Model 30-286 and the 25-286 use exactly the same planer.

    William

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  • From IBMMuseum@21:1/5 to William R. Walsh on Sun Nov 20 15:35:12 2022
    On Sunday, November 20, 2022 at 2:53:33 PM UTC-7, William R. Walsh wrote:
    Did the 8525 shaped system board come in a non "all-in-one" system? The 8525 would be an interesting little box if it used an external monitor...
    I'm way late to the party (don't get here often any longer, and have only
    the one computer still even set up to do the Usenet thing...)...yes. The Model 30-286 and the 25-286 use exactly the same planer.

    William

    Well, that's fine - because I get to correct myself:

    ...the Model 25 lacks the RTC of the Model 30...

    The 8086-based Model 25 actually has the BIOS code to run an RTC (of the chip type and address that is on the 8086-based Model 30)...

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