IBM Portable Personal Computer

From: Mike Allison <mallison_at_konnections.com>
Date: Sat Jan 24 23:43:41 1998

I'm not that impressed with the 3270pc. I bought it because I wanted
stuff out of it, but it was all pretty much proprietary (and covered in
dust and old) lots of wire wrapping and jumpers, so I just left it
alone. Now I use it to test Linux-16.

The REAL question is, if IBM used these as terminals which could run
software, what did they have in them allowing them to use the network
ports? I mean that was 1984, DOS might have had some hooks, but they
would have sold it.

Were these running XENIX/86, CPM86, or what? Anyone know? Anyone have
the software...

*|*
--- ....real cool, man
 "


-Mike

Sam Ismail wrote:
>
> On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, SUPRDAVE wrote:
>
> > i'd much rather love to find a
> > complete 3270pc or a xt370 or even an at370.
>
> Hmmm...now where did I pass up on that 3270PC? Or did I get it after all?
> I can't remember. Why are those so rare?
>
> And I guess the XT370 and AT370 were machines with 370 emulator boards in
> them to act as terminals to a 370 mainframe?
>
> Sam
Received on Sat Jan 24 1998 - 23:43:41 GMT