value of IBM 5110?

[Jim Battle]

Christian Corti wrote:
> On Mon, 7 May 2007, Jason T wrote:
>> I'm making deals with him now on it.  I want to check it out and see
>> if the floppy drives can read.  Anyone have any idea how to "IPL" it
>> or do a read off the disks?
> 
> IPL is easy: turn the machine on.
> To get a directory listing of a diskette, do the following:
> BASIC
> -----
> UTIL DIR,D80    (first drive)
> UTIL DIR,D40    (second drive)
> 
> APL
> ---
> )LIB 11001    (first drive)
> )LIB 12001    (second drive)
> 
> Christian
> 

You should also be sure it is cabled up properly.  The disk drives won't 
work unless the I/O bus is terminated.  The printer has the terminator 
built in, so you should wire them up as CPU->drives->printer.  Or you 
might have on hand a standalone terminator block, in which case you can 
just have CPU->drives->terminator.