6 May
2007
6 May
'07
5:20 p.m.
On Sun, 6 May 2007, Jason T wrote:
If the link goes dead, it's an IBM 5110 PC, 5103
Printer and 5114 dual
floppy unit.
Is that a model 1 (with built in tape drive) or a model 2 (without tape
drive)?
Yeah, I know, it's worth what people will pay for
it. But I don't
even see any completed on ePay, so I can't begin to gauge the
appropriate value. Those big floppy drives are calling me, though...
Although I don't know what "obo"s are (he asks for $600obo), even $600 are
way too much for such a system. Most systems are for free (or at most
100-150 EUR for complete systems with manuals and media) because nearly
noone can use/program/repair them anymore or at least they aren't really
interesting machines for people that don't want to program them in machine
language or do reverse engineering. You must keep in mind that you'll
have to write your own programs in order to do any real work with it,
otherwise it's like an old CBM machine with BASIC and nothing else...
Having said that, nobody has shown any interest in my 5110 Kermit or 5110
Infocom interpreter yet.
Christian