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

James Brigman jbrigman at nc.rr.com
Wed Dec 7 20:37:19 EST 2005


Personal System!

On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 09:57 -0800, Aaron Joyner wrote:
> 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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