IBM 5100

From: Joe R. <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Sat Aug 7 20:54:40 2004

At 06:10 AM 8/7/04 -0400, you wrote:
>At 02:42 AM 07/08/2004, you wrote:
>>Hello ClassicCmp friends,
>>
>>Right now as I type this an interview is in progress on the
>>Coast to Coast AM late night radio talk show about a supposed
>>time traveler who went back from 2036 to 1975 to obtain a
>>classic computer, specifically IBM 5100. Needless to say,
>>this story got me highly intrigued.
>>
>>Since I don't really know anything about the machine in question,
>>I thought I would ask the collective list wisdom. There must have
>>been something really special about IBM 5100 for them to go back
>>for it from 2036. Does anyone know anything about that machine?
>>
>>MS
>
> Vintage 1976, IBM's first "portable computer",

  And more importantly, the forerunner of the original IBM PC and all the
PCs (and clones) that followed.


     Joe
Received on Sat Aug 07 2004 - 20:54:40 BST