{"id":1010,"date":"2013-11-04T14:40:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T19:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2013-11-05T08:43:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T13:43:41","slug":"v-retro-scan-of-the-week-simple-instructions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1010\/v-retro-scan-of-the-week-simple-instructions","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Simple IBM Instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/ibm_ps1_monitor_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/ibm_ps1_monitor_small.jpg\" alt=\"IBM PS\/1 Monitor Instructions - 1994\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Step 1: Plug the monitor into the computer.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This roughly 7&#8243; x 10&#8243; sheet came packed with my brother&#8217;s 486SX 25MHz IBM PS\/1 computer, which my dad bought him right before he started college.  (Ah, the days when 486 was king.)<\/p>\n<p>We were still installing programs off 5.25&#8243; floppies then, and boy was that an adventure when the PS\/1 insisted that its 3.5&#8243; floppy drive was drive A:.  Most programs assumed that drive A: in MS-DOS was always a 5.25&#8243; drive (with the 3.5&#8243; drive, if present, being drive B:), which screwed up many install scripts when you had to install off a set of 5.25&#8243; disks.<\/p>\n<p>What the sheet shows is almost mind-numbingly self-explanatory &#8212; how to hook the monitor up to the computer.  It reminds me of these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/983\/retro-scan-of-the-week-usb\" target=\"_blank\">ridiculous USB plug-in instructions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I left the authentic mold stains on the scan because I think they add character.  The back of the sheet is blank.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From IBM PS\/1 pack-in notes, circa 1994 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Have you ever owned an IBM brand computer when it was new? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step 1: Plug the monitor into the computer. This roughly 7&#8243; x 10&#8243; sheet came packed with my brother&#8217;s 486SX 25MHz IBM PS\/1 computer, which my dad bought him right before he started college. (Ah, the days when 486 was king.) We were still installing programs off 5.25&#8243; floppies then, and boy was that an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[166,650,132,529,651,648,649,647,60],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-166","tag-disk-drives","tag-ibm","tag-instructions","tag-mold","tag-monitor","tag-ms-dos","tag-ps1","tag-retro-scan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}