IBM 5051 ????

From: James Willing <jimw_at_agora.rdrop.com>
Date: Thu Jul 15 12:26:28 1999

On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Joe wrote:

> What is it? I've never heard of one before. It looks kind of like a Lisa
> but has an attched keyboard and two 8" floppy drives. See
> "http://205.217.140.132/pcmuseum/default_page2.htm". This is one of the
> things from the guy that wants to sell his entire $25K collection.

Its commonly referred to as the System/23 "DataMaster". A dedicated
(more or less) accounting and word processing system. I've got one in my
collection. The docs infer that it can also run some form of BASIC, but I
have not spent too much time with it to date.

Also, it weighs a TON!

-jim
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