I don‘t understand why this video hasn‘t blew up much more, because it‘s the only real informational video on RU-vid about the 5100. Thank you very much for this :)
Not going to lie,, totally came here bc of Steins;Gate - but I was impressed about how cool and informative this video was!! This is legit the only IBM 5100 informative video I could find, and I rly appreciate it; thank you so much!
Dispose of this video at once! The merit of the 5100 is to great for the general public to allude to less the organization catch wind! It is the will of Steins;Gate!
There was a winery in my home town that first got their 5100 in about 1976, I learnt to program on it as a 13 year old. It was an amazing experience back then. They had the 5100 and a line printer and that formed their accounting system. It was HUGELY expensive even back then.
Very nice video. I liked the way you chat about the 5100 in a relaxed, informal way. Looking forward to more videos of your museum collection. Thanks! ~ Mark, at CHAP.
Came here from Steins:Gate, would you know if there are motherboard schematics? I own a ZX Spectrum and I'm wanting to expand my retro computers. I understand these sell for a lot of money, and I'd like to make my own.
APL! Arrgh! I learned to program with APL. No commands, just Greek looking symbols that did stuff. It was invented by an IBM researcher so they thought it was the future. It set back Big Blue by letting other mainframe manufacturers sell systems that didn't need a special keyboard with Greek symbols on every key.
This is not the first PC, the first personal computer was the Olivetti Programma 101, which predated this by around 10 years (but the form factor is quite similar).
The form factor of the Programma is very similar. However, when it gets down to use, it's more of a calculator than a general purpose device. It is still a beautiful machine though.
