Header image from http://ibm5550.na.coocan.jp/5535m18-e.html The IBM PS/55 5535-M is a series of laptops in the Multistation Family. That was basically Japan’s IBM PS/2 PC, but it required better graphics & screen resolution due to japanese (and east asian) characters. The 5535-M is more of a clamshel machine than a laptop, as it is fairly bulky, like a luggable. As you know, the 5550 got compact […]
IBM USA’s first clamshell “laptop” computer, it was overpriced, didn’t have features other competing machines had, and would get quickly surpassed. It had an option to have a printer connected directly to the backside of the machine. eBay Prices Date Sold Low Mid High EX+ 6/24/24 13 202 279 366 672 7/1/23 9 260 340 420 620 5144 CRT $220+, Keyboard $300, Screen $160 eBay […]
eBay Prices Date Sold Low Mid High EX+ 6/24/24V9 23 290 500 611 1100 7/1/23V8 9 260 340 420 640 eBay Link – 5155 Model 68 Released Withdrawn1984 02 1986 04 Specialty or Significance 1st IBM made PC Portable machine (Compaq Portable was before it)…Unless you count the 1975 IBM 5100 as the first, then this would be IBM’s 2nd portable PC. System specs Ports […]
Version 3 Price research done from June 6th to June 14th, 2024! Google spreadsheet Link here. Version 1 post in 2018Version 2 post 2021 Version 3 here is simplified, I went full McIntosh about LCDs and Specs in the previous posts, not gonna repost that shit here. There are no graphs in this version. UpdatesAdded Apple Silicon Macs, M1 2021, and both 2023 M2, M3 […]