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> IBM System 23 Not to discount the awesomeness of the others, but that's a real prize. Talk about a strange artifact of its time and place! https://en.wikipe
by justin66 6mo ago
> IBM System 23
Not to discount the awesomeness of the others, but that's a real prize. Talk about a strange artifact of its time and place!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/23_Datamaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/23_Datamaster
- ern_ave 6mo ago8 inch floppies! wow.
- cindyllm 6mo ago[dead]
- MisterTea 6mo agoThe machine came with a few new boxes of 8" still in the cellophane.
- justin66 6mo agoYeah, that's extremely cool. The wiki page had me at: The Datamaster was IBM's only 8-bit microcomputer and one of the few to use the EBCDIC encoding.
- icedchai 6mo agoMy uncle had a business with an IBM minicomputer: a System/36. It was the size of a large freezer. It also used 8" floppies! It took a "magazine" of 10x 8" floppies and could swap between them. It looked like the system in the top photo here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/36 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/36
- sleepybrett 6mo agoMy uncles dairy had a datamaster in a back office that they used for the books, etc. I wonder what happened that that, it's no doubt stuffed into some haybarn loft.