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dirkt
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Mod. 5140 - IBM's First Laptop Computer
Unlike the IBN 5100 [1] (which I guess actually was IBM's First Laptop Computer), the 5140 ran MS-DOS, and couldn't emulate the IBM/360 ISA like the IBN 5100 could, so it would be useless for John Titor because you couldn't hack SERN with it.
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5100
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5100