[email protected] writes: > It was the 1st Ibm PC. with floppies and 256 k ram and a monochrom screen > > On Monday, February 20, 1995 10:19:29 AM UTC-5, Chris Call wrote: >> Can anyone ID a machine for me? It's an IBM8150. It runs a system called >> DCPX, >> and runs at least one application written in 3790 macro assembly language.
wow from 1995, must be april 1st 8100 used UC (universal controller) ... also used in 3705 and 3081 service processor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_8100 above references that it ran two different incompatible systems, DPPX and DPCX at one point evans asked my wife to review it ... and shortly afterwards it was decommited. old email about MIT lisp group asking evans for 801/risc chips and he offered 8100 instead. http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#email790711 first ibm "personal computer" was 5100 ... done in 1973 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5100 by the palo alto science center ... it ran PALM processor ... emulating subset of 360 and ran a version of apl/360. predating later better known 5150 introduced in 1981. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
