IBM 6152 Academic System
Early 2026 update: there are apparently some people who have these systems and have located the special software needed to make use of the "Crossbow" adapter, including some of the operating systems that ran on it natively. Some of these folks have reached out to me. I've written them back, received some response from a few of them and then they all seem to have vanished from the face of the Earth. (One of them arranged to set up an FTP site from which I could get the software. That never materialized and and I never heard from them again.) Although I believe I still have this computer somewhere, I'm not sure where it is. I've given up hope on its ever being returned to fully operational condition.

If you have one of these (or are one of those people who contacted me in the past) and the software needed to make it go, I'm certainly still interested in pursuing that outcome. I'd like to see this computer run again.

Sometime within the last decade or so, I came across the original owner's manual and reference diskette at an auction. I will scan the manual and upload an image of the diskette. In the meantime, I'm pretty sure you can find the reference diskette elsewhere.
IBM 6152 Academic System
Click here to see a picture of the processor board in place inside the system unit.

The IBM 6152 was a part of the IBM PC RT family of products. This system was offered for sale to academic and educational markets only, at least as far as I know. It is built around an IBM PS/2 Model 60 with a special add-on processor card located in one of the Microchannel expansion slots.

So far this system has been tested to power up. That's as much as I can do with it so far. Since the hardware has been saved from fading off into oblivion, I would hope that the same can be done for any surviving software and documentation. If you happen to know of an application that was run on a 6152 Academic System, I would like to hear about it. Please use the contact information link above. The system I have claims to be a model 6152-022. It is serial number 72-4500457.

Oh, and then there is the special IBM medallion on the front of the system unit.
IBM Academic System Medallion
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