IBM 5161

From: John Honniball <coredump_at_gifford.co.uk>
Date: Tue Apr 1 12:47:00 2003

Witchy wrote:
> A surprise consignment arrived for me this morning - an IBM 5150 in not bad
> condition complete with keyboard/monitor

That's the original IBM PC, yes? What video card do you have?

> and a 5161 expansion box, spare
> expansion card and 2 extender cables.....

Very nice!

> reading the classiccmp archives
> back to 1998 makes me think I should be impressed since the 5161 isn't that
> common?

Well, I have one, but then I'm probably not very typical! I never
saw one when I did PC and DOS programming back in the 1980s. One
or two clones with external hard disks, but no IBM expansion chassis.

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John Honniball
coredump_at_gifford.co.uk
Received on Tue Apr 01 2003 - 12:47:00 BST

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