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IBM PS/2 Model 95 - October 9, 2025

I purchased this tower from Free Geek Twin Cities in "we gave up!" condition. It didn't output any video, and by the time I got it home, it wouldn't even come up over the serial port. I went through the whole system, removing and reseating everything, while cleaning contacts with Deoxit. To my surprise, the system fired right up with video output and all! The floppy disk drive, while technically working, is plagued by leaky capacitors so it will need to be stripped of those, cleaned, and repaired. For now, the system borrows a 2.88Mb drive from one of my Model 57 units, and I installed IBM OS/2 Blue Spine (for Windows compatibility) on the machine. It now makes for a great Tetris rig, with a BlueSCSI running as the SCSI hard drive for reliability. Updated 11/06/2025