IBM 5100 | TechMuseum
Year of manufacture: 1975 – 1978
Technical Specifications:
- Processor: IBM Palm , 1.9 MHz
- RAM: 16 – 64 KB
- FDD: –
- HDD: –
- Audio: –
- Connectors/Ports: External cassette drive, printer, cassette tape
- Case: Portable type
- Monitor: Monochrome
- OS: BASIC or APL
The IBM 5100 features an IBM Palm processor at 1.9 MHz and memory of 16 up to 64kB.
This portable computer model entered the market before the IBM Personal Computer and the successful IBM Portable Personal Computer. It may have been (r)evolutionary using the prototype of SCAMP (Special Computer APL Machine Portable), but it still needed to plug into an electric socket to function. Its production ceased when other successor followed a few years later, the 5110 and the 5120, continuing the IBM 5100 series.
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology corporation with operations in over 171 countries. The company was founded in 1911, in New York. IBM has a large variety of business divisions, ranging from hardware and software production to hosting services. For 29 consecutive years holds the record for most US patents generated. Furthermore, IBM, as a strong research organization as well, has presented inventions such as the FDD and HDD drives, the ATM, the SQL language for programming, the Barcode and DRAM among others.
That was just a snapshot on the presentation of the techmuseum series. Indulge more into the history. Continue reading more about the present model, the IBM 5100 here.
PC.GR
The history of personal computers
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