IBM 5100 Screen Crawl (VCF West XI demo)

From VCF West XI. IBM 5100 demo. Unfortunately more programs weren’t ready to be shown off at the show, as the quarter-inch cartridge (QIC) tapes have not aged well over the years. Even a brand new, 35 year old cartridge right out of the plastic wrap was found to be unreadable. The program you see here had to be transcribed by hand. However, I was told by Wayne Smith that there is a fellow who develops brand new, IBM 5100 compatible cartridges. Maybe next time we see this machine in action, we’ll have mo