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Photo: IBM history archive.

Date: 1975. From the IBM History website: "One of the first 'portables' on the market, it can store more information than any other commercial machine (48,000 bits), contains a small display screen, and can be used as a terminal for the System/370. More 'luggable' than portable, it weighs 50 pounds and costs from $9,000 to $20,000."

Photo: Oldcomputers.net

Other specs: 5-inch 16×64 monochrome monitor, 16K-64K main memory, 204K quarter-inch tape cartridge; available operating systems: APL, BASIC, or both (selectable by toggle switch on front panel). Nicknamed SCAMP (Special Computer, APL Machine Portable). We had several of these in Watson Lab in the mid-1970s — in those days, APL was a prestige language and these were our first desktop computers.

Also see:

• IBM 5100, Wikipedia, accessed 27 May 2019.
• IBM Portable PC, Oldcomputers.net, accessed 27 May 2019.
• IBM Personal Computer... Well, not really, IBM Archives, accessed 27 May 2019.
• http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/retrocomputing/ibm/5100/
• http://www.geocities.com/~compcloset/ibm5100.htm

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