{"id":313,"date":"2004-04-15T23:02:31","date_gmt":"2004-04-16T03:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=313"},"modified":"2004-04-15T23:02:31","modified_gmt":"2004-04-16T03:02:31","slug":"ibm-5100-first-portable-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"IBM 5100: First Portable Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"IBM 5100 computer\" href=\"http:\/\/oldcomputers.net\/ibm5100.html\">IBM 5100 computer<\/a> from 1975 is apparently the first &#8220;portable&#8221; or personal computer. The 1981 PC from IBM was the 5150 model.<\/p>\n<p>I learned from an improbably site &#8211; <a title=\"Untitled Document\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johntitor.com\/\">The Time Travel Tale of John Titor<\/a> which provides posts from a purported time traveller from 2036 who came back looking for a 5100. (Thanks to Matt K for the link to this.)<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe John Titor site may be part of an art (or fiction) project &#8230; but then again, he could really have travelled back in time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IBM 5100 computer from 1975 is apparently the first &#8220;portable&#8221; or personal computer. The 1981 PC from IBM was the 5150 model. I learned from an improbably site &#8211; The Time Travel Tale of John Titor which provides posts from a purported time traveller from 2036 who came back looking for a 5100. (Thanks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=313\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IBM 5100: First Portable Computer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-computing-and-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}