> Are you
sure about that? The 5100 doesn't support floppy drives. And
I've
> never heard of third-party drives (that would
need IMFs, too) for the
5100.
$3100 is about what IBM charged for a fully loaded 5150. (PC)
THAT is not a 5100! $3100 for a 5100 would have been a bargain.
We are neither talking about the 5150, nor about $3100 but $31,000 for a
5100 (see above). Or did I miss something?
There was a third-party floppy drive for the IBM 5100 :-)
Or at least there as something that was sold in this way. Here is its
brochure:
Note that it "plugs directly into the Serial I/O Adapter of the IBM 5100
with no hardware or software changes". So it's a serial-port connected
floppy drive that talks to the 5100 in a format that it likes.
(What is an IMF?)
--Tom