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* Auction: Vintage IBM PC Computer Type 5502 Torrance, CaliforniaLouis Ohland
`* Re: Auction: Vintage IBM PC Computer Type 5502 Torrance, CaliforniaRick Ekblaw
 `* Re: Auction: Vintage IBM PC Computer Type 5502 Torrance, CaliforniaLouis Ohland
  `- Re: Auction: Vintage IBM PC Computer Type 5502 Torrance, CaliforniaRick Ekblaw

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Auction: Vintage IBM PC Computer Type 5502 Torrance, California

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From: ohland@charter.net (Louis Ohland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Auction: Vintage IBM PC Computer Type 5502 Torrance, California
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2024 18:47:35 -0600
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 by: Louis Ohland - Tue, 9 Jan 2024 00:47 UTC

https://www.ebay.com/itm/166169236379

BIN of $ 5,000 or MAO.

On case it sez "Hard Disk Model 20MB"

No idea of model...

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

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From: ekblaw@vnet.ibm.com (Rick Ekblaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: Auction: Vintage IBM PC Computer Type 5502 Torrance, California
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2024 16:51:01 -0500
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 by: Rick Ekblaw - Tue, 9 Jan 2024 21:51 UTC

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.

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

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From: ohland@charter.net (Louis Ohland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: Auction: Vintage IBM PC Computer Type 5502 Torrance, California
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2024 15:53:57 -0600
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 by: Louis Ohland - Tue, 9 Jan 2024 21:53 UTC

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.

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

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From: ekblaw@vnet.ibm.com (Rick Ekblaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: Auction: Vintage IBM PC Computer Type 5502 Torrance, California
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 07:48:13 -0500
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 by: Rick Ekblaw - Wed, 10 Jan 2024 12:48 UTC

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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