On Fri, 16 Jul 1999 Philip.Belben_at_powertech.co.uk wrote:
> Joe Rigdon quoted someone (probably Jim Willing) as having written:
> >>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".
> >>
> >>Its commonly referred to as the System/23 "DataMaster".
> >
> > Ah! OK now I know what it is.
>
> I'm not convinced that it is a Datamaster. The screen is too small, and the
> screen bezel the wrong shape; the trim is the wrong colour (ok, maybe it's a BW
> photo, but the trim on a System/23 isn't usually that dark that I know of).
>
> And, as I said, System/23 is 5322, not 5051 or any of the other model numbers
> we've been seeing here :-)
>
> > At 08:03 PM 7/15/99 -0700, Rueben wrote:
> >
> >>5051 Try 5020:
> >>
> >>http://www.gazetteonline.com/money/monp263.htm
> >>http://gallery.uunet.be/Christophe.Daeninck/cc06.htm
> >>
>
> Well, the model number at the first URL (Thanks Reuben) is 5120 - so which is
> correct?
>
> I agree that the "5051" looks very like a "5120" - far more than it looks like a
> Datamaster.
>
> So perhaps it is a 5110 derivative...
Hmmm... ok, based on the various pictures I think I'll concede that its
likely not a 'Datamaster'. One observation off to the side however...
Aside from the screen size and bezel, the rest of the chassis/keyboard
unit looks the same and I noted when I had the unit in my collection apart
that the monitor/bezel assembly is a removable module, so there may be
some common lineage between these two machines. (different option sets?)
Learning something new every day about curiously old things! B^}
(have we officially become 'computer archeologists' yet?)
-jim
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