Click here or click onto the photo for a full size version of this picture. At the first glance, it looks as though the -111 is just a -071 with a bigger hard disk. The -111 uses the 115MB IBM 0669 ESDI drive, the largest ESDI drive of the 'black series' ever made by IBM. Some later models like the -311 had even larger drives of ~300MB, but those were made by third-party vendors. Click here or click onto the photo for a full size version of this picture. The true improvement of the -111 is that it is the first one to have the redesigned Model 80 planar with a 20 MHz CPU. Though the speedup is nice to have, the real benefit of the new planar is that some bugs present in the original 16 MHz planar have been fixed: Linux runs smoothly and without hiccups - if you forget about the low performance of the ps2esdi driver...

Processor: Intel i386DX @ 20MHz Coprocessor: Intel i387DX @ 20 MHz Cache: none Memory: 10 Mbytes (options range from 1M to 8M) Bus: 8 MCA slots (3x32 bit, 5x16 bit) Interfaces (onboard): Mouse, Keyboard 1x Serial 1 x Parallel Floppy (1.44M), allows attachment of up to 2 drives VGA Add-on cards: WD 8003E/A Ethernet Adapter IBM ESDI Hard Disk Controller IBM Enhanced Memory Expansion Operating System(s): currently none Useful Links: Original Announcement from IBM More Information about the Mod. 80 Details about main board Reference Diskette

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