Nostalgic IBM: Oldies but Goldies...

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#1 Post by **RealBlackStuff** » Wed Feb 19, 2014 11:36 am

For nostalgic people (way before Lenovo), some IBM history: http://www.zdnet.com/photos-from-the-fi ... 457/#photo

Neil · #2 Post by **Neil** » Wed Feb 19, 2014 1:51 pm

Well, that first photo takes me back. In my high school business class, there was one "new" typewriter, and it was an IBM Selectric (like in the picture). It was such a joy to use the IBM compared to the few other electric, and especially the classroom full of manual typewriters!

kony · #3 Post by **kony** » Wed Feb 19, 2014 1:52 pm

Some of this stuff is really odd and interesting, especially the first portable computers. Thanks for sharing!

Saucey · #4 Post by **Saucey** » Wed Feb 19, 2014 9:09 pm

Awesome find RBS!!

TRS-80 · #5 Post by **TRS-80** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 3:26 pm

Great, great grand-daddy of the Thinkpad?

http://www.zdnet.com/photos-from-the-fi ... 457/#photo

The first "portable" computer. LOL!

jdrou · #6 Post by **jdrou** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 3:50 pm

I've actually got a 43P model 150 still in service at work (plus a couple of spares in storage).
Didn't realize they actually had AIX running on PC hardware in the 80s.

killer · #7 Post by **killer** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 3:54 pm

Thanks for the link, RBS.

IBM Hursley is a mere sneeze away from where I live. (We always used to laugh about the boffins there having brains like planets but never wearing matching socks.

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I must pay that museum a visit when the floods die down.

TRS-80 · #8 Post by **TRS-80** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 12:04 pm

During one of my regular local Craigslist scans for "IBM/Lenovo/Thinkpad" turned up this old IBM 5150 today:

http://tampa.craigslist.org/hil/sys/4333348356.html

I have no idea how common / rare these are, or if anyone wants me to attempt to contact the guy for them, but I saw it and immediately thought of this thread. lol

ilakast · #9 Post by **ilakast** » Sat Mar 08, 2014 2:35 pm

And here's some hand's on nostalgic touch

http://jsmachines.net/configs/pc/machin ... kb/win101/

EvoT61 · #10 Post by **EvoT61** » Thu Mar 13, 2014 11:20 am

wow ,1998 and allready up to 1GB of Ram ! today half of laptops/ notebooks have 1GB Ram

by the way thanks for this thread !

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