IBM Portable PC

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(Submitted April 15, 2008 03:31:14 by Terry)

if anyone has one of these to donate or sell at a reasonable price, i'd be interested.

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(Submitted March 28, 2008 20:03:51 by Steve)

Oh! I could kick myself now, but back then... Been browsing the site and looking at all the old dinosaurs, and remembering. I had one of these back around 93-94, and put a 486 board in it, just to see if it could be done. Modified the drive bay to take the 3.5, and had a real hot-rod! I'm guilty of mod'ing PC's, XT & AT's, a Kaypro, and others. O! The tragedy!!

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(Submitted March 25, 2008 20:22:36 by John O'Callaghan)

I have a working IBM Portable PC and I have decided to sell it, or trade it for some vintage Intel chip(s). Anyone interested, please contact me at 773-572-6461 (work). Chicago area...thanks.

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(Submitted February 16, 2008 11:28:24 by Nick Darley-Jones)

I have one of these and it works! Spent most of the 80s-90s writing software in IBM basic.

Planning to sell it complete with Case, manuals and disks! Haven't fired it up for about 15 years. Will be sticking it on eBay. I hope someone can pay the postage!

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(Submitted December 6, 2007 13:18:49 by (a href=mailto:)John(/a))

I have one in my living room. 640K ram, 40Mb SCSI hard drive with matching black front, Dos 5.0, USR 9600 Baud modem and windows 1.1.

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(Submitted October 3, 2007 12:29:09 by John McCartney)

FYI - the IBM 5155 I had for sale is gone. Thanks!

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(Submitted September 27, 2007 10:24:18 by HG)

I found one of these years ago complete with the carrying case. I asked how much for it and the guy just gave it to me. Not a scratch on it and works. I figure if I hang on to it long enough well. Who knows?

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(Submitted September 14, 2007 09:56:13 by jim burns)

I'd like to buy one of these if someone has a functioning one to sell.

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(Submitted September 12, 2007 10:30:27 by John McCartney)

I have one of these that is available. It comes with DOS and the original manuals, I think there's some other software there as well. Shipping from (or local pickup) Portland OR.

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(Submitted July 27, 2007 00:57:07 by (a href=mailto:)Brian(/a))

To answer a couple of questions:

It is functionally an IBM-PC/XT—i.e. 8088 based, with up to 640kB of RAM without resorting to an Expanded Memory card. It should be able to run any version of MS-DOS. 3.30 is probably about optimal, for running from floppies.

Its weight is: fracking-heavy-oh-gawd-my-back. My memory of lugging the buggers suggests at least 40 pounds.

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(Submitted July 27, 2007 00:39:27 by (a href=mailto:)Brian(/a))

Ahh, the Luggable.

At one time i wanted to score one of these cases, and build my 286-12 (which was then living on a sheet of wood) into it. I had an ATI EGA wonder, which could drive interlaced 640x350 to a composite monitor, so it could have driven the Luggable's monitor. Would have been a nice upgrade.

I still have the hardware; i may yet do it, jsut because. :)

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(Submitted July 22, 2007 17:05:17 by funkytoad)

What is its weight?

PS: I want to buy one

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(Submitted October 7, 2006 05:27:58 by Petry)

Hello, i got one of those portables. but when did the manufacturing started of this serie? i got one that has had his final test on 9 november 1984.

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(Submitted June 10, 2006 17:06:35 by (a href=mailto:)Ziva(/a))

Can anyone tell me how to use its basic commands that come without DOS? Found an old one, and I have no idea what to do with it.

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(Submitted April 5, 2006 17:11:47 by Kurt)

I used one of these, back around 1987-89, maybe later. We actually added a hard disk to it by running a ribbon cable out the back to a Seagate 10MB drive housed in an old tape drive box. Worked!

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(Submitted September 24, 2005 13:40:45 by nidamo)

nidana ne latina!

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(Submitted September 9, 2005 19:11:36 by Robin)

Im looking for 1976 IBM 1500 portable PC. Please contact me if you know of a working one.Thank you

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(Submitted July 9, 2005 20:16:14 by dave)

Would anyone like to buy mine?? It needs some work and very heavy to ship. It does not start possible power supply needs replacing.

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(Submitted May 30, 2005 11:04:23 by fouman frank)

salut je sais que vous étent des persons qui peuvent me comprendre je vien d'une femille povre c'est le pour quoi je vien au pret de vous solisité une aide je mon plus grand réve est de possedé un ordinateur mai je n ai pas les moyent de mofrire cet ordinateur je vous demande de realisez mon reve ci vous plais (par done moi pour les phrases) merci

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(Submitted May 30, 2005 11:03:16 by fouman frank)

salut je sais que vous étent des persons qui peuvent me comprendre je vien d'une femille povre c'est le pour quoi je vien au pret de vous solisité une aide je mon plus grand réve est de possedé un ordinateur mai je n ai pas les moyent de mofrire cet ordinateur je vous demande de realisez mon reve ci vous plais (par done moi pour les phrases) merci

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(Submitted May 24, 2005 23:19:21 by DusteD)

Hi, i have one of thoose, what version os dos should i use with it ?

Do you have disk images ? Thanks in advance, reply on my mail.

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(Submitted September 28, 2004 03:54:36 by KERRACHE)

i would like information about T 142 lap top (ibm°

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