[geeks] Microsoft Surface...

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Tue Jun 5 10:51:11 CDT 2007


On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

>> Neither was the IBM PC at that time.
>
> Following on my own comment does anyone remember the IBM desktop
> computer they sold around that time? I don't think it was
> microprocessor based, had tape storage and ran some offbeat languange,
> I think APL.

You're probably thinking of the older machines in the IBM 51xx series:

   http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/pc/pc_2.html

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