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  • Auction: Vintage IBM PC Computer Type 5502 Torrance, California

    From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 8 18:47:35 2024
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/166169236379

    BIN of $ 5,000 or MAO.

    On case it sez "Hard Disk Model 20MB"

    No idea of model...

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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Rick Ekblaw on Tue Jan 9 15:53:57 2024
    I couldn't see any slot covers...

    Rick Ekblaw wrote:
    Louis Ohland wrote:
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/166169236379

    BIN of $ 5,000 or MAO.

    On case it sez "Hard Disk Model   20MB"

    No idea of model...

    Ah, yes, another IBM Japan "special".  The seller probably has no idea
    what it is, but it's old and heavy and looks very "industrial IBM", so
    he thinks it's super valuable.  In truth, it's basically e-waste - a customized AT-like platform designed to push/pull SDLC lines, obsolete
    before 1990 arrived.

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  • From Rick Ekblaw@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Tue Jan 9 16:51:01 2024
    Louis Ohland wrote:
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/166169236379

    BIN of $ 5,000 or MAO.

    On case it sez "Hard Disk Model   20MB"

    No idea of model...

    Ah, yes, another IBM Japan "special". The seller probably has no idea
    what it is, but it's old and heavy and looks very "industrial IBM", so
    he thinks it's super valuable. In truth, it's basically e-waste - a
    customized AT-like platform designed to push/pull SDLC lines, obsolete
    before 1990 arrived.

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  • From Rick Ekblaw@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Wed Jan 10 07:48:13 2024
    Louis Ohland wrote:
    I couldn't see any slot covers...

    Correct, it's not a standard design with ISA slots or anything like
    that. It does have an I/O bus, that's where those SDLC adapters plug
    into the bottom, but that's also custom to this box. Back in the late
    1970s and early 1980s IBM thought that System Network Architecture (SNA)
    was going to take over the world and they made some interesting products
    to support that view. What IBM failed to see was that Ethernet and the Internet were going to win the networking war, so they wasted a lot of
    time and money on SNA and Token-Ring before the point was finally driven
    home.

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