IBM 5120 at the local thrift store

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Wed Oct 14 14:26:58 1998

> Today at the Local Salvation Army store i saw this huge IBM 5120 console
> machine on wheels. Its an Auto Diagnostics station. Must weigh 500lbs

Does IBM reuse model numbers? I suppose they must, or four-digit numbers
would have been exhausted long ago.

The IBM 5120 I'm (only slightly) familiar with is a later version of the
IBM 5100 portable computer from 1975.
Received on Wed Oct 14 1998 - 14:26:58 BST