IBM 5100 (was Re: Preserving history. Was: Re: IBM 1130)

From: Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com>
Date: Tue Sep 29 14:17:43 1998

On 29 Sep 1998, Eric Smith wrote:

> A pretty amazing deal, given that the IBM 5100 was priced under $10K for
> a minimal configuration.
>
> My recollection is that the HP 9830 and IBM 5100 were pretty competitively
> priced. Both started under 10K and went up fact if you wanted more memory,
> a printer, etc.

My IBM 5100 came with some of the term sheets used to make the original
sale:
        IBM 5100 Model C2 (APL+BASIC+32K): $16,490
        Communications Feature 1,062
        IBM 5103 Printer: 4,335

I have a price list for the HP 9830 somplace. I'll post the prices when I
find them. According to the IBM sales guy (who later went on to be a
member of the team that put together the 5150, BTW), the stiffest
competition came from Wang, but he couldn't remember the model.

-- Doug
Received on Tue Sep 29 1998 - 14:17:43 BST