On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Phil Clayton wrote:
Here's a good find for ya.. Today at the
Local Salvation Army store i
saw this huge IBM 5120 console machine on wheels. Its an Auto
Diagnostics station. Must weigh 500lbs easy, mounted on wheels with a
built in touch screen monitor.. I opened up the side panel on it and saw
a CDROM drive, UPS, Some sort of cartridge drive and hard drive.. It had
30 or 40 cdroms (Auto tech data) and all the manuals for it. Looking at
the manuals it appears to be an XT type machine.
Did you grab it? If not, do! You can leave the automotive diagnostics
stuff behind, but the 5120 is the last of the original 5100 line, and the
machine that followed it was the 5150 (i.e., the PC).
I will go back to the Thrift store to take a closer look at the IBM 5120 Auto
diagnostics machine tomorrow and see if its an XT class or truly a 5100
computer as you indicated..I really don't think so as I did see a cdrom drive
5-1/4 and a 5-1/4 360 floppy drive on it..
If it was resonably priced I would get it just for the touch screen monitor..
Like I said the think is huge, the size of a Washing Machine and built like an
army tank.
Perhaps thats what it was used for , tuning up army tanks.. Ha!
Phil...