The Hidden Front Panel of the IBM 5100

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From: Quadibloc
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2018 21:18

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Although no blinkenlights are provided, a very small amount of front bezel real 
estate was needed...

The IBM 5100 had a switch, Registers/Normal, that changed its built in CRT from 
displaying the dialog between the user and the program running to displaying the 
CPU's internal registers.

This might make it the last well-known computer to have some sort of provision for 
viewing the processor's registers like that...

John Savard

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