[HN Gopher] Bus Sniffing the IBM 5150
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Bus Sniffing the IBM 5150
Author : ingve
Score : 72 points
Date : 2023-10-06 10:54 UTC (12 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (martypc.blogspot.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (martypc.blogspot.com)
| tempodox wrote:
| If you want to see what a 5150 looks like:
|
| https://history-computer.com/ibm-pc-5150-guide/
| effnorwood wrote:
| [dead]
| ubermonkey wrote:
| I read "IBM 5150" and I swear I can _hear_ the keyboard.
| glhaynes wrote:
| Did anyone call them by their numbers back in the day? I grew
| up the child of an IBMer and only recall hearing "PC", "XT",
| "AT". There were some big IBM machines and displays that would
| be referred to by numbers ("3090", "8514") but I never heard
| that for the PC system units.
| neilv wrote:
| Sometime after the PC/XT came out, I started calling the
| other "original IBM PC" to distinguish it.
|
| Around then, and for awhile, people said "IBM PC", "IBM
| PC/XT", "IBM PC/AT", "IBM-compatible PC", "286 PC", "386",
| and things like that.
|
| People didn't ordinarily say "5150", and that wasn't the
| prominent branding on the chassis.
|
| Much later, when "PC" was even more diluted, I started saying
| "5150" to mean the original.
| dragonwriter wrote:
| 5150 I occasionally heard (though something like "original
| PC" was more common) to disambiguate reference to the
| specific model from the general class once the XT, AT, PCjr,
| etc., made the term ambiguous even when prefixed with "IBM";
| don't recall the other model numbers for system units being
| used.
| michaelhoffman wrote:
| I don't think so, but in 2023 "PC" can refer to a whole bunch
| of different things, and "5150" is precisely clear about what
| it refers to.
| ubermonkey wrote:
| No, we just called them PCs or XTs or -- rarely! they were
| expensive! -- ATs.
|
| BTW 3090 was a mainframe, IIRC.
| benley wrote:
| I was about to be like "surely you mean the S/390 series"
| but nope, you are correct! Apparently 3090 came in between
| the S/370 and S/390 series:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3090
| glhaynes wrote:
| I remember! My dad had an extra 3090 metal badge (maybe
| 2-3x the size of the ones on PCs) that we had glued over
| our XT's badge for a while lol
| NikkiA wrote:
| No, they were always just 'a pc', even XT (5160) vs PC (5150)
| was never really pointed out
| KMag wrote:
| ... and Van Halen's "5150" in the background?
| ubermonkey wrote:
| Heh, no. The PC was intro'd before the album. ;)
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