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ⓔ The IBM 5100 - first portable computer

ⓔ The IBM 5100 - first portable computer

A student showed me this video this week in their presentation over the Intel 8088. I had now idea IBM had a portable computer like this available in 1977.

Storage consisted of 204KB tapes. Amazing how far we’ve come in 40 years.

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Ryan Collins

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