20 Apr
2006
20 Apr
'06
3:33 p.m.
> The 5100 was not the IBM PC line.
On Thu,
20 Apr 2006, Richard wrote:
Is the 5100 the RT RISC-based one? I remember seeing
one of those at
udel in the 82-86 time frame and I recall it had windowing, bitmap
graphics, etc.
Nope.
The 5100 was WAY earlier. Before "Personal" computers. Before LS IC
"microprocessors".
It's the one that John Titor was looking for, to take back to the
future (2036) to handle the collapse of Unix in 2038.
picture:
http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/ibm5100/
specs (on Eric's site):
http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/retrocomputing/ibm/5100/
I don't remember what model number the early RISC machine was.
I can't even remember the model number of the 68K based "laboratory"
computer.