IBM 5100

[Joe R.]

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