IBM Portable Personal Computer available in Ft. Lauderdale, FL

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:

> The shipping aspect is interesting though - I'd assumed they were at
> least in the UK but the email gave no indication of whereabouts except
> for the phone number being rather odd for this country.

I immediately recognized the number as being in the US with a Florida area
code.

> I'm surprised anyone would be prepared to ship such a machine across the
> pond to us at their expense (particularly as presumably it'd need
> modification to the PSU to work here, would likely have a different
> keyboard layout etc.)

They probably didn't realize they were sending the message to a museum
in the UK.  A lot of times people just find all the computer museums (real
or otherwise) they can find on the web and send out a blanket offer.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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