[vcf-midatlantic] First PS/2 style IBM display

Bill Degnan billdegnan at gmail.com
Sat May 30 13:29:17 EDT 2020


Trivia...when IBM  ame out with the ps/2 line, in parallel they also worked
on and released the Convertible which was their first laptop.  The monitor
that went with it was rare even at IBM where I worked at the time.

On Sat, May 30, 2020, 1:22 PM Bill Degnan <billdegnan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rare items get more $$
>
> On Sat, May 30, 2020, 1:07 PM Bob Aviles via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>
>>  Wow! that's seem a lot?
>>     On Friday, May 29, 2020, 12:30:23 AM EDT, Bill Degnan via
>> vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> https://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-5144-Monochrome-Monitor-greenscreen/303309369003
>>
>> not easy to find these.  If you have an IBM Convertible (LCD 8086 laptop),
>> this was the rare external monitor that went with it.  Kind of like the
>> Apple IIc of IBMs.
>> b
>>
>>


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