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TIL of John Titor, who claimed to be from the year 2036 and was looking for an IBM 5100 for its ability to debug and emulate code between various languages. IBM engineer Bob Dubke confirmed that, at the time, this feature was unknown to the public. Titor disappeared soon later.

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