28 Dec
2012
28 Dec
'12
12:59 a.m.
On 28/12/2012, at 11:27 AM, jim s <jwsmail at jwsss.com> wrote:
On 12/26/2012 6:10 PM, Chris Pye wrote:
On the system I have, it says on the labels for both the system unit and the monitor that
they were made in Tokyo by IBM Japan. The machine was certainly sold there, so maybe they
thought that Japan was their main market for this machine? They certainly were beaten at
that game.
Chris
I have an IBM JX (in Australia).. Nicely built machine, but rather useless.
Of the few I have seen (including mine) they all look like they have never been used,
probably because there isn't a great deal of software they can run. Surprisingly the
infra red keyboard actually works ok.
Chris
I'm curious if it is built in Australia, or if it is an oddball Korean PC.
While working @ Ultimate many years ago, someone wanted a Hangul terminal, and when it
showed up it was a really odd unit with 3 1/2 inch side by side floppy drives. I had at
the time been using Dos enough that I could guess what most messages were even though they
were in Hangul.
It hooked up via both serial and 3270 interfaces. Wish I could have snagged it, but it
was sent off somewhere in the US for other vendors to work on it, and probably scrapped
there, as there was little chance of it going back to Korea.
Jim