On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Russ Blakeman wrote:
> The guy is supposed to bring the main unit in today at work and I can see what
> this thing is up close. I have a feeling he's misread it as his physical
> description sounds a lot like a PC or XT.
>
> David Wollmann wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Russ Blakeman wrote:
> >
> > > A friend asked me about what he says is an IBM unit that is running
> > > Windows 3.1 and he says it says a type 4836. That number isn't clciking
> > > with me, anyone have any ideas of what this is, or is he possibly
> > > reading a tag from an add-on/in card? I saw a reference in IBM Finland
> > > to a 4836 multiplatform emulation card but nothing else.
> > >
The POS machines have been built on 5160, 5170 and lately (the last ones I saw
up close were about six months ago) on a PC Server box. I think there were a
couple iterations built on PS/2s, as well.
> >
> > IIRC, 4830 is IBM's POS platform. I could be wrong, I've just consumed massive
> > amounts of refined sugar.
> >
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Received on Wed Jan 13 1999 - 14:10:53 GMT