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A comment on IBM 5160.

Re:IBM 5160 by dhosek on Monday August 24, 2020 @02:45PM (#24263970)
Hmm, if I were to get a computer from my birth year, it looks like this would be the only option (or perhaps some big iron of slightly older vintage).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett-Packard_9100A

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Re:IBM 5160 by bitwize on Monday August 24, 2020 @03:02PM (#24264148)
Thankfully, three tiny vendors -- called Apple, Tandy, and Commodore -- all released machines in my birth year.
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Re:IBM 5160 by TruffleLabs on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @01:12PM (#24273552)
All I could find was the CDC 3600 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_3000_series#Upper_3000_s...

... haul out the Simh is my only option for now.

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Re:IBM 5160 by tssva on Monday August 24, 2020 @04:14PM (#24265006)
Ditto
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