IBM 5120 at the local thrift store

From: Phil Clayton <handyman_at_sprintmail.com>
Date: Thu Oct 15 10:32:39 1998

Doug Yowza wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Phil Clayton wrote:
>
> > Here's a good find for ya.. 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 easy, mounted on wheels with a
> > built in touch screen monitor.. I opened up the side panel on it and saw
> > a CDROM drive, UPS, Some sort of cartridge drive and hard drive.. It had
> > 30 or 40 cdroms (Auto tech data) and all the manuals for it. Looking at
> > the manuals it appears to be an XT type machine.
>
> Did you grab it? If not, do! You can leave the automotive diagnostics
> stuff behind, but the 5120 is the last of the original 5100 line, and the
> machine that followed it was the 5150 (i.e., the PC).
>

I will go back to the Thrift store to take a closer look at the IBM 5120 Auto
diagnostics machine tomorrow and see if its an XT class or truly a 5100
computer as you indicated..I really don't think so as I did see a cdrom drive
5-1/4 and a 5-1/4 360 floppy drive on it..
If it was resonably priced I would get it just for the touch screen monitor..
Like I said the think is huge, the size of a Washing Machine and built like an
army tank.
Perhaps thats what it was used for , tuning up army tanks.. Ha!

Phil...
Received on Thu Oct 15 1998 - 10:32:39 BST