[Coco] another Rare CoCo 2 :)

Sean badfrog at gmail.com
Tue Jun 22 01:48:05 EDT 2010


Thanks for that link, I had never heard of this device before.  I had
always assumed it was the Osborne that was the first 'luggable', but
apparently IBM had come up with one 6 years earlier!
Though at 55lbs, more than twice the weight of the Osborne, even
'luggable' is probably pushing it.


>
> According to both Wikipedia and http://oldcomputers.net/ibm5100.html
>
> "From $8975 (BASIC  with 16KB) to $19,975 (BASIC+APL with 64KB)"
>
> There's a 5120 somewhere around my dad's place.  I played with it as a
> kid, weird APL computer with built in dual 8 in floppies.
>



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