It doesn't look like the System 23 we have....
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, James Willing wrote:
> 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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