Re: Since then...

[Thomas Epp <tom.epp@juno.com>]

 ...The 5100 and 5110 did have an 8" floppy - IBM didn't adopt a 5.25"
until the PC.  The difference between the 5100 and the 5110 was one had
RPG built-in and the other had IBM BASIC (I don't remember which).  The
last time I saw one of these was at the science museum in Baltimore
around 1983. ...

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The 5110 had the IBM BASIC - that's what I was programming in at the
time.

BTW, while looking for another book in my "dungeon", I ran across the
following:

	THE digital LOGIC HANDBOOK 1966-67 EDITION - FLIP CHIP (TM)
		MODULES  (c) 1966
	digital SMALL COMPUTER HANDBOOK  (c) 1967
	THE digital PDP-8/L USERS HANDBOOK  (c) 1968
	pdp11 04/34/45/55 processor handbook (c) 1976

Since the first three predate my Delta/computer days, I think I picked
them up at a used book sale at some point.  One of them has a library
loan card jacket in the back (but it doesn't identify the library),
another has "P. $1.00" stamped inside the front cover.  I think that one
may have come from Barnes & Noble's sale annex in NYC.  The fourth book
(on the pdp11) was originally from the Alexis I.duPont School District,
as it has their stamp inside.  I used to get old books and Scientific
Americans from their library when they were about to throw them away.

It was from that last book (or one like it) that I first learned
machine/assembler code and system architecture.


					bcnu
					-TWE

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