World's first computer on ebay!

[Tony Duell]

> 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.

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.

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 :-)

(SOrry, I'm biased. I love the HP 98x0 machines...)

-tony