[TriLUG] What did the PS in PS/2 stand for?

[Carl Crider]

pre-SCSI, micro-channel days. "Personal System/2"

On 12/7/05, mark at thefowles.com <mark at thefowles.com> wrote:
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> >From what I remember... Personal System   (from PS/1 and then PS/2) --
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> - Mark
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> > So here's a trivia question for the old school IBMers who frequent the
> > list.  Does anyone know what the PS in the IBM PS/2's name stood for?
> > Someone asked me earlier today was asking why the PS2 keyboard port was
> > labeled as such (their explanation referred to the playstation 2... :),
> > and I knew it was derived from the PS/2, but not what the actual PS in
> > that name stood for.
> >
> > Anyone?  :)
> > Aaron S. Joyner
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