Noting that I recognize this is an extremely unimportant thing to be even a tiny bit annoyed about: am I the only one annoyed that people refer to IBM PCs by model number now more than they do their “official” names?
For example, I never heard anybody back in the day refer to the “5160”, it was always “PC XT” or just “XT”. (The 8514[/A] being the big exception!) But I think newcomers to the scene these days would think the opposite. It seems like to me that this is a quite recent trend, too. I wonder how that happened!
Playing King’s Quest on its squat little internal screen was … an experience. I imagine it was better at running 1-2-3 but I can’t say I did much of that back in those days!
Model M and Model F - shipped with lots of IBM gear. Searching for docs on specific models is probably more effective than names. Another example is "Thinkpad", that covers a generation of models and documenation and features. some with Big Blue some with Lenovo.
For example, I never heard anybody back in the day refer to the “5160”, it was always “PC XT” or just “XT”. (The 8514[/A] being the big exception!) But I think newcomers to the scene these days would think the opposite. It seems like to me that this is a quite recent trend, too. I wonder how that happened!
Anyway, this was a really odd little machine. Such a glimpse of the PS/2 design language that was soon to come. Doubly-so if you had the CRT for it: https://www.globalgaragesale.net/item/156173/vtg-ibm-5140-pc...
Playing King’s Quest on its squat little internal screen was … an experience. I imagine it was better at running 1-2-3 but I can’t say I did much of that back in those days!
IBM Made The Longest Laptop Ever https://youtu.be/htl_JbZIcUU?si=LW8hWuk_TX-BN5g_