13 Apr
2007
13 Apr
'07
5:04 a.m.
> Oh, ye of little faith. The guy from the future
who was looking for the
> 5100 took one of those back in time to around 1066.
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Tony Duell wrote:
Why do people always forget the HP9830? It was 2 years
before the
IBM5100, and while HP called it a calculator, it was a full-blown desktop
computer with up to 16K bytes of RAM running BASIC from ROM.
John Titor and the rest of his timeline apparently won't be aware of its
existence.
Besides, for reasons not specified, he had will need the APL and 360
emulation to be able to deal with the Unix "end of time" in 2038. Why?
Is there even a Linux port to the 5100?
OK, it had a 1-line alphanumeric LED display, not the
CRT that the
IBM5100 used, but I don't think that's enough reason to forget it :-)
Well, maybe he will have maybe thought that he needs windows to do the
graphics.
I'm afraid that I'm not very good at conjugating verbs for things that had
happened in the future, and will happen in the past.