IBM Portable Personal Computer

On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Cliff Gregory wrote: Hmmm...what's a 5140? The one I happened upon is in great condition. A little dirty, but nothing a simple cleaning won't undo. One of the flip-down keyboard stems is broken off, but other than that it is cosmetically perfect. I believe I may be missing the back cover, if this system did in fact have one that slips over the connectors on the back (it looks like it did). It boots just fine and shows 512K of RAM, seeks on the drive for a moment and then jumps right into MS BASIC. Opening it up I (which is nice and easy) I find: Mostly pretty standard equipment: floppy controller, serial card, parallel card Color Graphics Controller 256K RAM card (with some very interesting looking RAM chips...1" x 1" squares with what looks like an aluminum cover on top) LOTS of sheilding (in fact, everything is sheilded, the power supply, the display and even the cards are enclosed in a sheilding panel) IBM didn't really try that hard with this. It's basically a desktop PC machine with the disk drives squeezed over to make room for the screen. But it has a handle! BTW, I paid $10 for it at a thrift store. Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Historian, Programmer, Musician, Philosopher, Athlete, Writer, Jackass Coming Soon...Vintage Computer Festival 2.0 See http://www.siconic.com/vcf for details!