Hello! Jim, as I recall the company that we know now as IBM did in fact make clocks as found in many schools. Sometimes they worked from signals delivered from a central recording clock. And sometimes they wore a windup mechanism or even an electric one.
They even made time clocks. One was even sold to the Edison company and it's in the museum that the place became in West Orange NJ. My mother happens to have one. Now regarding your IBM luggable, would that be known as the IBM Portable PC? If so, then I'd give parts of my anatomy so to speak to find one. (It happens I have a need for a native PC rather then the clones that we've got today.) -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jim Bohnsack > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 9:38 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: OT: old equipment Re: RES: 3174 Don't work with TCP/IP Under VMESA > > I saw a carbine like that in the IBM museum in Endicott. Gotta get back > there before I retire back to Texas in a year of so. I'm only about 35 > miles up the road, now. > > I remember that when I started school in a one room country school house > in 1949 that there was a clock on the wall that said, on the front face, > "IBM". If I ever get back to Beecher, IL, maybe I'll drive out there in > the off chance that the building is still there and not being used. If > so, I might be tempted to break in and steal the clock if it's still > there. > > I also have a 1986 PC Jr. and a 1985 IBM luggable in my attic in Plano, > TX. I pulled the luggable out a year or two ago with the big box of > diskette's and it still boots up from an old DOS diskette that had been > in the attic of a Texas house for 4 summers or so. The bearings on the > hard drive that I had put in had dried up. > > Jim > > O'Brien, Dennis L wrote: > > I've got an IBM M-1 Carbine from WWII. Does that count? > > > > Dennis > > > > "I don't have a girlfriend. I just know a girl who would get really mad > > if she heard me say that". -- Mitch Hedberg > > > > > > -- > Jim Bohnsack > Cornell University > (607) 255-1760 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
