earliest graphics display system in your collection?

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Thu Apr 20 17:33:55 CDT 2006


> > The 5100 was not the IBM PC line.
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Richard wrote:
> Is the 5100 the RT RISC-based one?  I remember seeing one of those at
> udel in the 82-86 time frame and I recall it had windowing, bitmap
> graphics, etc.

Nope.
The 5100 was WAY earlier. Before "Personal" computers.  Before LS IC
"microprocessors".

It's the one that John Titor was looking for, to take back to the
future (2036) to handle the collapse of Unix in 2038.

picture:
http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/ibm5100/
specs (on Eric's site):
http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/retrocomputing/ibm/5100/


I don't remember what model number the early RISC machine was.

I can't even remember the model number of the 68K based "laboratory"
computer.





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