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A barrier to the success of the 1975 IBM 5100 was the cost: 1975: $8,975 2019: $42,832.94 Price was not based on true manufacturing costs and markups—but on its potential to disrupt some government and business contracts where a few dozen 5100s would displace mainframe sales.https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1183540004192018433 …
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Meet the 1975 IBM 5100 portable computer.
One of the first “portable” computers built by IBM Palo Alto Scientific Center from a 1973 prototype called the SCAMP, Special Computer APL Machine Portable.
Predates PCDOS/MSDOS and IBM PC from 1981.
IBM never understood it's market. pic.twitter.com/g3F4Nccbkg
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