I had acquired an IBM 5120 a few months ago but I didn’t have time to really check it out.
It’s a fairly pristine example (32KB) with dual 8” floppies. It also came with a few manuals including the Maintenance Information Manual as well as the Computing System Logic Manual (still shrink wrapped). It also has a serial I/O diskette and a diagnostic diskette. It also came with a printer but I have not yet unboxed that yet. When I originally unboxed the 5120 I was a bit disappointed in that the shipper didn’t pack it as well as I would have liked (styrofoam peanuts) but there was other packing material so it wasn’t a complete disaster. Since it was a working unit prior to shipment, after an initial inspection, I powered it up only to have nothing happen. :-( I proceeded to take the covers off and noticed that the fuse for the display had blown. It was likely vibration related since I didn’t see nor smell any burnt components. Replacing the fuse, I saw that the cathode filament was lit but still nothing on the display. :-( After removing the logic chassis and removing all of the foam “gunk”, I noticed that a couple of the boards as well as the connectors for two of the boards were loose. After reseating everything, success! I haven’t yet done a complete checkout yet, but I did enter a small BASIC program and it ran successfully. Now I have to find some IBM formatted 2D diskettes for this so that I can save what ever programs I enter. ;-) TTFN - Guy
