John Titor, who claimed to be a time traveler, supposedly came back from the year 2036 to obtain one because its compiler could help save computers from imploding due to the looming UNIX timeout error (which, like Y2K and the year 2000, will occur in 2038 if nothing is done to fix it).
One point two one gigawatts?!? Great Scott... Ain't nobody got watts for that.
Where did you get that picture? See the Q?
First instance I found on tineye.com was from July 19, 2017 and pointed here-
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/images/misc/ibm-5100-01.jpg
Link to tineye.com results-
https://tineye.com/search/3c7c3817e0938c28a12791b889cbebf82b576f1a?sort=crawl_date&order=asc&page=1
Edit- Wow, I found an older link and a story and it's dated Monday, 13 February 2017. First Q drop was October 28, 2017.
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2017/02/13/banana-for-scale/
The person who sent her the 5100 was known only as “SB”
Serial Brain
🤯
oh thank you for that link! I've seen y'all mention tineye.
hmm what do you make of that? That computer is early 80s, don't you think?
The IBM 5100 was first introduced in 1975.
John Titor, who claimed to be a time traveler, supposedly came back from the year 2036 to obtain one because its compiler could help save computers from imploding due to the looming UNIX timeout error (which, like Y2K and the year 2000, will occur in 2038 if nothing is done to fix it).
https://www.strangerdimensions.com/2011/10/03/john-titor-the-ibm-5100/
That was a great read! Thank you! 🙂
Is this from the Space Shuttle?
What do the screen words say?
Here's a better screenshot from the below forum post - https://files.catbox.moe/di41il.jpg
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2017/02/13/banana-for-scale/
T/u!
If I recall correctly John Titor lived in Florida, and was a member of the Florida Shotgun Militia. 2036 was such a long time ago...