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Article #3468IBM 5100 (Was: IBM 1130)
From: jo... Douglas W. Jones201H MLH31...
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 1990 13:49
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 1990 13:49
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>From article <759...@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM>, by t...@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM (Tim Mikkelsen): > > I think the 5100 had a small CRT (like about 5") and it did have a > toggle for selecting APL or BASIC (but I think you had to cycle power). > We got to look at one at Iowa State when they first came out and we > popped the thing open - it looked like a spaghetti factory on the > inside. > > I understood that the 5100 was based on a small 360 chipset. (Which > also had a reasonable APL implementation.) > Your memory of the 5100 matches mine. The additional story I remember about that machine is that the reason IBM was building it was that they had lots of surplus production technology for their 360 series of mainframes since they had just switched over to the 370 generation of machines. The IBM Office System 6 word processors were also supposed to house left-over 360 parts. Doug Jones jo...@herky.cs.uiowa.edu
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!ns-mx!pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu From: jo...@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: IBM 5100 (Was: IBM 1130) Message-ID: <1898@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Date: 18 Jul 90 13:49:38 GMT References: <7590008@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM> Sender: ne...@ns-mx.uiowa.edu Lines: 21 Posted: Wed Jul 18 14:49:38 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit