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| IBM Portable PC |
| Model: | 5110 |
| Available: | February 1978 |
| Price: | US$10,225.00 (as shown) |
| Weight: | 43 pounds (no internal tape) |
| CPU: | IBM proprietary, 1.9MHz |
| RAM: | 16K, 64K max |
| Display: | 5" monochrome monitor |
| 64 X 16 text |
| Storage: | optional internal 200K tape |
| external 1.2Meg floppy drive(s) |
| Ports: | single peripheral I/O port |
| OS: | APL and/or BASIC |
| Serial #: |
| BASIC: | 27-31117 |
| APL: | 27-31134 |
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The IBM 5110 is a general-purpose desktop computer designed to meet the data processing requirements of a
small business.
Yet, it has the capability, through media exchange and communications features, to distribute
processing in large enterprises, too.
This system is well suited to business and problem-solving applications such as:
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General ledger
Account payable
Payroll
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Accounts receivable
Financial planning
Inventory control
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Order writing/billing
Sales analysis
Cost estimating
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Job cost analysis
Linear programming
Word processing
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Optional features:
APL and BASIC languages
Additional main storage (RAM to 64K)
Additional diskette drives (1.2MB per diskette drive)
Diskette sort in ROS (ROM)
Expansion feature (prerequisite for serial/asynch features)
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Asynchronous communications
Binary synchronous communications
Serial I/O adapter
Parallel adapter
Audible alarm
Channel terminator
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The IBM 5110 computer is the 'business version' of the original IBM 5100
from 3 years prior, which was designed mainly for mathematicians and engineers.
While the 5100 had only a tape drive for data and application storage, the new 5110 now supports
the new IBM 5114 external dual 8-inch floppy drive, which is not only much faster, but holds much more data.
New features and business related software made the 5110 more useful and appealing to the business elite.
There are three models of the 5110:
model 1 - includes support for an internal and external tape drive.
model 2 - no built-in tape-drive - supports external floppy storage only.
model 3 - desktop version with two built-in 8-inch floppy drives.
All three models support one or two external IBM 5114 dual-floppy drives,
as well as the IBM 5103 dot-matrix printer.
Base system prices, options, and typical system pricing:
| Memory | Programming language |
| BASIC | APL | Both |
| 16K | $8,475 |
$9,475 | $10,475 |
| 32K | 10,225 |
11,225 | 12,225 |
| 48K | 11,975 |
12,975 | 13,975 |
| 64K | 13,725 |
14,725 | 15,725 |
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| Additional options | Price |
| Internal tape drive | $1,400 |
| IBM 5106 External tape drive | 1,850 |
| IBM 5103 Printer @ 80 cps | 3,200 |
| IBM 5103 Printer @ 120 cps | 3,700 |
| IBM 5114 Disk drive (1 drive) | 4,150 |
| IBM 5114 Disk drive (2 drives) | 6,050 |
| Bisync option | 2,000 |
| Async option | 900 |
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| Typical system | Price |
| 16K, 1 tape, 80 cps | $13,075 |
| 16K, 2 disks, 80 cps | 17,725 |
| 32K, 2 disks, 120 cps | 19,975 |
| 48K, 4 disks, 120 cps | 27,775 |
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